Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. Told in short, poetic snippets, this book delights and surprises, as well as rigorously examines how mental illness can affect a family across generations and how crying can express women's agency - or lack of agency - in everyday life. Christle's gift is the freshness of her voice and honesty of her approach, both of which create an intimacy with readers as she explores a human behaviour broadly experienced but rarely questioned.
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