This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

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This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

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Yet Ukraine lacked a “recent tradition of national statehood” and no single national narrative took hold. It’s only the death drive, my dear, Freud would likely tell me, if I lay my body down on his carpet-covered couch.

OB: I had to grapple with time because I was grappling with Alzheimer’s, a temporally disorganising illness, but also grappling with recovery, which gives you this whole different way of organising your life. Am I doing this as some kind of rubber necking at car crash activity – particularly if the deeply anguished, shame filled part of the journey is not one I have personally been on. Peace of mind was all well and good, but my mind was a viper’s nest of critical thoughts constantly writhing for my attention.Great mastery of tone - whether the author is talking about her own alcoholism or her father's Alzheimers it feels like a single coherent world that we're living in as the reader. As an archaeologist, I like to get my facts right, and I will try my best to do so, but five years have passed since that day in 2016 and I am excavating my own unreliable memory. The memoir is incredibly intimate, a truthful portrayal of the roughness of addiction without romanticising it. I think where I really began to be increasingly drawn in, was in her account of something which happens to us all – unless we die very young – that turn, where the child whom at some level still exists in all of us, however adult we are, becomes the parent to a parent moving inexorably towards their own dying days. I didn’t understand it then, but at the time I was more interested in intensity than intimacy, which meant I went at everything full throttle, thirsty for a t ranscendence it was impossible for another person to provide.

The opening passage, as he immerses himself in the moat of his Suffolk farmhouse during a downpour, gives the texture of both the man and his writing. This Ragged Grace tells the story of Octavia's journey to recovery from alcohol addiction, and the parallel story of her father's descent into Alzheimer's.The experience of being trapped in an addictive relationship to any substance is ultimately very monotonous, from a psychological point of view, even if you’re wearing cool clothes and surrounded by avant-garde people. Recommended by The New York Times, Guardian, BBC Culture, Electric Literature, The Sunday Times and others, it has run for ten years and has listeners worldwide. It may sound like a small thing, but it was a revelation, and proof that all the work I’d put into my recovery was worth it. Bright is in writing everything she is on the podcast: sensitive, funny, insightful, and fiendishly clever. She would sit in the British Library looking at photographs of women captioned with words like delirium, malingering and melancholia.



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