Holden, After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

Title: Holden, After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose
Author: Tara McGuire
Biography: 1702188
ISBN: 9781551528939
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 356
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: A mother's beautiful elegy to her son lost to overdose.
Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief: a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire's excavation and documentation of the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental opioid overdose at the age of twenty-one. Beginning with Holden's death and leaping through time and space, McGuire employs fact, investigation, memory, fantasy, and even fabrication in her search for understanding not only of her son's tragic death, but also his beautiful life. She navigates and writes across the many blank spaces to form a story of discovery and humanity, examining themes of grief, pain, mental illness, trauma, creative expression, identity, and deep, unending love inside just one of the thousands of deaths that have occurred as a result of the opioid crisis.
With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose.