Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness
Robert Lunday
(Author)
Description
Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction PrizeDisequilibria: Meditations on Missingness is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author's stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family's experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness by connecting his stepfather's case to other true-life disappearances as well as those portrayed in fiction, poetry, and film. In doing so Disequilibria explores the transience in modern life, considering the military-dependent experience, the corrosive effects of war, and the struggle to find closure and comfort as time goes by without answers.
Product Details
Price
$19.95
$18.55
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Publish Date
February 15, 2023
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.2 X 8.19 X 0.39 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780826364678
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About the Author
Robert Lunday is a professor of English at Houston Community College. He is also author of Mad Flights and Gnome.
Reviews
With its arresting catalogue of anecdotes and passages illustrating missingness, Disequilibria captures what it's like to become obsessed with a mystery, as well as what it feels like to get trapped in its labyrinth. But most compellingly, it teaches us that if the grief-stricken can't find out the truth, they can attain solace in the still-present love for those who are gone.--Rigoberto González, author of Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light
This haunting, engrossing, superbly written memoir is full of revelations and mysteries: a kind of prose epic of the missing. Chockful of Americana, it is also marbled with uncanny literary references: Robert Lunday seems to have read everything and put it to good use. His intelligence makes this book shine.--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale
This haunting, engrossing, superbly written memoir is full of revelations and mysteries: a kind of prose epic of the missing. Chockful of Americana, it is also marbled with uncanny literary references: Robert Lunday seems to have read everything and put it to good use. His intelligence makes this book shine.--Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale
