
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
You tell me we are made of seven billion billion billion atoms. I can feel every one of them as I write this all down. It's a rush to feel that, like falling in love. Remembering is like falling in love with you, with us, again and again.
What makes us who we are? What stories do we inherit – and leave behind?
Faced with the prospect of losing her memory, a writer revisits the moments that changed her – from childhood to motherhood, loss and ill-health. Through shifting pronouns and perspectives, moving across place and time, each piece twists the kaleidoscope of existence to make sense of the present through the past. From the opening battle between her brain and her body, a conversation emerges between her collection of selves: the Daughter, the Sister, the Dancer, the Gardener, the Mother, the Girl-Who-Read-Woolf. Reliving her journey of becoming, she unpicks the fabric of fact and experience to stitch a new tapestry of personhood, both real and imaginary, mundane and profound.
All of Us Atoms offers a tender portrait of the tension between our drive to make sense of things and the freedom that comes from throwing categories away. It heralds the arrival of a major new literary voice, urging us to reframe and reclaim our own stories and revel in our mutable, messy, multitudinous selves.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- This Much Is True
- Contents
- I Think Therefore I—
- The Memory
- The Accordion of Categories
- Breaking the Chain
- Good Toes Naughty Toes
- The Smell of Our Skins
- In the Pith
- The Girl Who Read Woolf True
- I C43H66N12O12S2 You
- The Huer’s Wife
- Water Plus Seed Plus Light
- A Piece, A Part, A Whole
- On the Other Side of Silence
- Best Man
- She Had Label in Her Pocket
- Cousin John
- Where Have You Gone
- The Joke
- Repaired With Love
- The Most Beautiful Sounds i Ever Heard
- Inventory of Wonderment
- And This Too Is True –
- Permission Credits