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Author:
Athena Dixon
Publisher:
Tin House Books
Date:
October 3, 2023
Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred fifty miles from her family and friends, Dixon begins watching mystery videos on YouTube, listening to true crime podcasts, and playing video game walk-throughs just to hear another human voice. She discovers the story of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman who died alone, her body remaining in front of a glowing television set for three years before the world finally noticed. Searching for connection, Dixon plumbs the depths of communal loneliness, asking essential questions of herself and all of us: How have her past decisions left her so alone? Are we, as humans, linked by a shared loneliness? How do we see the world and our place in it? And finally, how do we find our way back to each other?
What The Reviewers Say
Timely.
Doleful.
A thought-provoking memoir in essays.
Dixon’s memoir deftly traverses our exceedingly connected yet somehow lonelier-than-ever world.
