Vanishing

by Candida Lawrence

There is no more revelatory a memoirist at work today than Candida Lawrence. Her three earlier volumes have chronicled her life underground with the two children she snatched from their custodial father and her battle with cancer in a poisoned world. Vanishing is an honest chronological sequence of personal reflections covering all of a singularly uncommon life.In this new collection Lawrence addresses an array of subjects with an eloquent, understated honesty that reveals her heart and her mind and her resistance to expectation. By the end, what comes clearest in VANISHING is the author's sense that modernity has separated us from our most real emotions and from the most sensible attachments.As always, Lawrence's writing is filled with smart, gentle anger, sweet sadness, and the most private sense of what is vital and important.

Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2009