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And at its heart is the immense weight of love..
The Unwritten Book revels in the randomness, connectivity, and magic of everyday existence.
What secret messages might his work reveal? What wisdom might she distill from its unfinished pages? Hunt conveys a vivid and grateful life, one that comes from living closer to the dead and shedding fear for wonder.
Nestled within her inquiry is a very special ghost book, an incomplete manuscript about people who can fly without wings, written by her father and found in his desk just days after he died.
Sebald, James Joyce, Ali Smith, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and many others, Hunt explores motherhood, hoarding, legacies of addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world.
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Through literary criticism, history, family history, and memoir, inspired by W.
Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues.
Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the forest, the towering library of all those books we\'ll never have time to read or write.
Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying.
What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead.
A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt\'s The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. --Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire From Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of The Dark Dark, comes The Unwritten Book , her first work of nonfiction, a genre-bending creation that explores the importance of books, the idea of haunting, and messages from beyond I carry each book I\'ve ever read with me, just as I carry my dead--those things that aren\'t really there, those things that shape everything I am. --Priscilla Gilman, The Boston Globe Eerie, profound, and daring, this is a book only the inimitable Hunt could write.
An intoxicating blend of humor and pathos. . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of the human heart with courageous abandon . . .
One of our most interesting and bold writers
