Literary Nonfiction.
It seems likewise inevitable that I would love this book."--Julie Marie Wad. \'Perhaps, it was inevitable that I love these things, \' Dubrow\'s speaker muses at one point.
But Throughsmoke is also an elegantly braided exploration of what fragrance opens up in us--a haunting and ephemeral guide, as the finest fragrances are, to memory, obsession, grief, and desire. "There are many ways I might describe Jehanne Dubrow\'s riveting new project, THROUGHSMOKE: \'a capacious lyric essay that distills many voices into one\' (true ), or \'a stirring meditation on the olfactory sensibility\' (yes ), or even \'a remarkable compendium of facts about perfume\' (indeed ).
Literary Nonfiction