The Loved Ones

Winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, The Loved Ones presents

an intimate portrait of family grief, for fans of Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder

and Kristin Prevallet's

I, Afterlife



There are so many ways to bury the dead. In an

autobiographical series of essays, The Loved Ones explores 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.



The Loved Ones 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?