1 irish bestseller for fans of maggie nelson and leslie jamison sinad gleeson s essays chronicle in crystalline tender powerful prose life in a body as it goes through sickness health motherhood and love of all kinds i have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars glistening beneath the skin a constellation of old and new metal a map a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles we treat the body as an afterthought until it no longer can be until the pain or the pleasure is too great sinad gleeson s life has been marked by terrible illness including leukemia and debilitating arthritis as a child she bathed in the springs of lourdes ever hopeful that her body would cooperate ever looking forward to the day when she could take her body for granted but just as she turns inward to explore her own pain and then the marvel of recovery and then the arrival of her greatest joys falling in love becoming a mother she turns her gaze outward she delves into history art literature and music plotting the intimate experience of life in a women s body across a wide ranging map from nick cave to taylor swift botticelli to frida kahlo louisa may alcott to lucy grealy constellations is an investigation into the different ways of seeing both uniquely personal and universal in its resonances in the tradition of some of our finest life writers gleeson explores in her own spirited generous voice the fierceness of being alive she has written a book that every woman should read eimear mcbride
sinad gleeson
mariner books
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