How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences
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How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

About this book

2021 Clara Johnson Award from Jane's Stories Press Foundation 
2020 Gold Winner for Autobiography & Memoir in the Foreword INDIES

Many are haunted and obsessed by their own eventual deaths, but perhaps no one as much as Sue William Silverman. This thematically linked collection of essays charts Silverman’s attempt to confront her fears of that ultimate unknown. Her dread was fomented in part by a sexual assault, hidden for years, that led to an awareness that death and sex are in some ways inextricable, an everyday reality many women know too well.
              
Through gallows humor, vivid realism, and fantastical speculation, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences explores this fear of death and the author’s desire to survive it. From cruising New Jersey’s industry-blighted landscape in a gold Plymouth to visiting the emergency room for maladies both real and imagined to suffering the stifling strictness of an intractable piano teacher, Silverman guards her memories for the same reason she resurrects archaic words—to use as talismans to ward off the inevitable. Ultimately, Silverman knows there is no way to survive death physically. Still, through language, commemoration, and metaphor, she searches for a sliver of transcendent immortality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Author’s Note
  9. Ultima Thule
  10. Fate 1: Clotho
  11. The Eternal Reign of Miss Route 17
  12. 13 Ways of Surviving New Jersey
  13. Miss Route 17 Refuses to Grow Old
  14. The Three Fates: How Much Is the Moon Worth?
  15. The Remarkable Death-Defying Exploits of Miss Route 17
  16. Until My Number Comes Up
  17. Requiem for a Qwertyist
  18. My Death in the Family
  19. The Three Fates: Drawing the Shades
  20. A Member of the Wedding
  21. Fate 2: Lachesis
  22. The Sick Hypochondriac
  23. The Three Fates: On Tedium
  24. The Safe Side
  25. My Life as a Thanatologist
  26. The Janet Leigh Variations
  27. The Summer of Hate and Death
  28. Here Be Human Dragons
  29. Miss Route 17’s Near-Death Experience under the Boardwalk at the New Jersey Shore
  30. Sigilisms of Miss Route 17’s Many Hidden Talents
  31. Death Comes for the Poet
  32. Flirting with the Butcher
  33. The Three Fates and the Barefoot Angels
  34. Fate 3: Atropos
  35. At the Terminal Gate
  36. Miss Route 17’s Own Graceland
  37. Memorabilia: My Guardian Devils and the Phantom of the Opera Gloves
  38. The Three Fates: When You Go
  39. Of Chrysanthemums, Tupperware, Cremated Remains, and FedEx-ing to the Great Beyond
  40. Miss Route 17’s Blue Period
  41. The Three Fates: Filling in the Blanks
  42. On the Reliance of Verbs to Survive Death
  43. The Queen of Panmnesia
  44. Acknowledgments
  45. Notes
  46. About Sue William Silverman
  47. Series List
  48. Other Works by Sue William Silverman