{"product_id":"9781950539772-the-loved-ones","title":"The Loved Ones","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEssays to Bury the Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e presents an intimate portrait of family grief, for fans of Maggie Nelson’s \u003ci\u003eJane: A Murder \u003c\/i\u003eand Kristin Prevallet’s \u003ci\u003eI, Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are so many ways to bury the dead. In an autobiographical series of essays,\u003ci\u003e The Loved Ones \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the deaths of four family members across three generations: an inexplicable double murder, a fatal car accident, a long illness, and a conscripted solider killed in action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePiece by piece, each essay explores the death a loved one ina collage of vignettes: the loss, the aftermath, the funerals, and the rituals usedto say goodbye to the body. As the investigation deepens, Davis lines up otherforms of death—capital punishment and murder; medically-assisted suicide and“natural” death from disease; military conscription and “freak accident”—to seewhat comes to the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e is about the intricate reality of grief, the instability of time and memory in the face of loss, and the feeling of being left behind still living. It asks, what does it mean to bury our loved ones when our only desire is to never let them go?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55418384056694,"sku":"9781950539772","price":15.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28193460.jpg?v=1742861220","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781950539772-the-loved-ones","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}