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The weight of words: human relationality in end-of-life memoirs

The weight of words: human relationality in end-of-life memoirs
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The Consolations of the Illness Memoir

Sick (2018), and Anne Boyer’s
The Undying (2019), for a few examples, all play
with form and question the utility of a linear story with a definite
conclusion. This makes Tessa Miller’s new book,
, a bit of a throwback. A memoir of being diagnosed and
living with Crohn’s disease, Miller’s book offers a didactic narrative, in
Hawkins’s taxonomy, or a questing one, in Frank’s. Hers is one of triumph, if
not restitution.
Tessa Miller really wants to help. A
tightly-wound achiever, “I’d planned for everything,” she writes in the book’s early
pages
. “I signed up for every high ....

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