Animal bodies on death, desire, and other difficulties Roberts, Suzanne 1970- creator author. text biography Autobiographies. Biographies. Essays. Autobiographies. Essays. nbu 2022 monographic eng print xi, 236 pages ; 22 cm "How do we reckon with our losses? 'Animal Bodies' offers an unflinching examination of grief and personal loss-such as the death of parents, friends, and beloved pets, as well as broken marriages, lost friendships, and the loss of innocence and youth-and our collective grief caused by Covid-19, mass shootings, societal and gender inequities and violence, and environmental degradation"-- Death. The Essay Determines How It Will Begin -- The Grief Scale -- Eight Hours -- The Same Story -- Becoming Bird -- A Kiss for the Dying -- Bone & Skin -- Wearing Her Eyeshadow -- A Love Letter to My Hometown after the Shooting -- The Red Canoe -- Traveling with Ghosts -- Friending the Dead -- Desire. Keep Your Numbers Down -- In Love with the World -- Sportfucking -- This Far from Desire -- Traveling Alone -- Winter Travel -- The Hungry Bride -- Breaking the Codes -- My Mother's Daughter -- Funerals, Safety Pins, and Flaming Saddles -- FM -- The Good Time Girl -- What She Must Do -- Other Difficulties. Animal Bodies -- The Queen of the Amazon -- A True Story about Jealousy -- The Last Goodbye -- Rites of Passage -- Traveling with the Dead -- The Disappearing Act -- Honky-Tonk Woman -- Auntie Suzanne -- The Danger Scale -- Words Etched into Skin -- Mother Keeps Daddy on the Shelf -- Ways to Speak the Unspeakable. Suzanne Roberts. Roberts, Suzanne 1970- Authors, American 21st century Biography Loss (Psychology) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women Authors, American Loss (Psychology) 2000-2099 fast PS3618.O31628 Z46 2022 814/.6 B BIO026000 BIO022000 9781496231024 1496231023 9781496231871 9781496231888 2021036627 DLC 210818 20220216145720.1 in00004562468 eng