Memoir
I had the pleasure of reading an advanced copy of Amy Long's memoir in essays, Codependence. It's a remarkable debut — a fascinating read that explores the intersections of chronic pain and opioid addiction, and elicits questions about our current approach to the opioid crisis.
Your book offers a nuanced and complex look into all angles of dependence, both on opioids and within relationships. When did you start writing about opioid use and dependence?
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Here I have one task — walk. No schedules to keep. No to-do list. Nobody paging me or pulling at my attention.
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Freeing a human experience from of the muck of its stereotypes is especially important with something like the schizophrenias.
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The more I read, the more I’m convinced that there’s no meaningful difference between fiction and the memoir we call nonfiction.
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"Writing about trauma or difficult experiences doesn’t repair that trauma,” said Melanie. “It doesn’t make it go away. But I kept hearing what a transformative thing it was for [the memoirists] to shape these stories into something that they could be proud of.”
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