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Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death by Elizabeth Earley

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Synopsis:

“What do you think happens after we die?” 

This has been Elizabeth Earley’s favorite conversation starter since the motorcycle accident that almost killed her.

In Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, Earley delves into memories of past lovers and offers vivid portraits of the Hospice patients she has worked with after recovering from her own near-fatal injuries. 

Tracing the many connections — philosophical, scientific, ethical, and spiritual—between sex and death, these lyric essays ponder the afterlife, pain and pleasure, quantum entanglement and love, and the “strange and painful goodness of being alive.”

 

Learn more about the author, Elizabeth Earley.

Learn more about the illustrator, Nicole Roberts.

Praise

“Juxtaposing paradoxes to collapse false binaries between birth and death, desire and grief, and mystery and knowing, Elizabeth Earley’s Little Deaths All In A Row mines the veins opened by Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts. Earley deploys her own damage as a portal — a collective reckoning — to what is made possible when we choose to remain soft through hard looking. Plumbing the vectors of time, intimacy, and longing, these essays are as nonlinear, recurrent, and vital as healing. You can be made better by reading this book.”
Kristen Millares Young, award winning journalist and essayist and author of the novel, Subduction