{"product_id":"the-glass-eye-isbn-9781941040775","title":"The Glass Eye","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Brilliant . . . As the pages fly by, we’re right by Vanasco, breathlessly experiencing her grief, mania, revelations, and―ultimately ― her relief.\" ―\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Poets \u0026amp; Writers' Best Nonfiction Debut of 2017\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNYLON\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice\u003cbr\u003eA Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great Writers Pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans of Maggie Nelson and Meghan O’Rourke, Jeannie Vanasco emerges as a definitive new voice in this stunning portrait of a daughter's love for her father and her near-unraveling after his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. But this isn't the book she imagined. \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals—increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. It becomes a puzzle Jeannie feels she must solve to better understand herself and her father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeannie Vanasco pulls us into her unraveling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery.Brilliant . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson's \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts \u003c\/i\u003e. . . As the pages fly by, we’re right by Vanasco, breathlessly experiencing her grief, mania, revelations, and—ultimately—her relief.\n—Entertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWildly innovative. —New York Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHypnotic . . . a haunting exploration of perception, memory, and the complexities of grief. In language that is understated and economical, Vanasco brings to life the father she loved with an almost frightening force . . . Vanasco's characters and settings are vivid, prismatic, and surreal.—The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanasco explores the intricacies of the human psyche with stunning poignancy.—Newsweek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis powerful, haunting memoir starts off with one of the more compelling first sentences I’ve read in some time: “The night before he died, I promised my dad I would write a book for him.” [\u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye \u003c\/i\u003eis] a journey that takes Vanasco into the dark depths of her family history, as well as her own psyche, and it shows in an incredibly intimate way the methods we use to cope with loss, disappointment, and grief, and how we can try and make our way out of the darkness and into a place of recovery.\n—NYLON, Best Books of Fall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVanasco's candor, curiosity, and commitment to human understanding are not to be missed.—Booklist, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deceptively spare life story that sneaks up and surprises you with its sudden fecundity and power.—Kirkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeannie Vanasco expertly explores the trinity between grief, psychosis, and creativity in a taut memoir about her beloved father and all that arose in his absence. This book has a blazing lyricism to it, one that’s bound to be a trademark of Vanasco’s limber mind. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e—spare, deep, and kaleidoscopic—will make you want to read the first page again after you finish the last.\n—Ploughshares\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerful and ruminative . . . This is an illuminating manual for understanding grief and the strange places it leads.—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[A]n intense and unforgettable memoir, as fascinating for its artistry as for its subject matter. . . . Lyric, haunted, smart and tortured, this is an obsessive love letter to a dead father as well as a singular work of literature.—Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompelling . . . Vanasco writes about her episodes of mental illness in a way that makes them so accessible, almost seeming rational at times.—Bustle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most inventive and engrossing memoirs I've read in a long, long time . . . If you want to read something that will make you think and that will keep revealing more to you every time you read it, this is the book.—Minnesota Public Radio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeannie Vanasco's \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is memoir as it ought to be, but so rarely is: beautiful and painfully raw, but also restrained and lyrical. Vanasco is brilliant, and this book proves it.\n—Darin Strauss, author of HALF A LIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeannie Vanasco shows us why rules should be broken: because an elegy that pulses with immediacy, a fragment that is inextricable from a whole, a book that comments on its own writing can smash what you think you know into pieces, and expose a piece of truth so bright it might be your own broken heart, handed back to you.\n—Melissa Febos, author of WHIP SMART \u0026amp; ABANDON ME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating meditation on loss, and an enduring monument to what remains. Wise, brave and beautifully wrought, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e signals the arrival of an exceptionally fine new voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n—Alexandra Styron, author of READING MY FATHER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e the writer asks, in prose that mesmerizes with geometric precision, how we can orient ourselves to the world when our only compass is grief. What begins as an experience of profound loss becomes an obsession, the fierce intensity of which propels readers through this breathtaking book.\n—Lacy Johnson, author of THE OTHER SIDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeannie Vanasco has produced a debut of incisive vision. In prose as vivid as a novel and as chiseled as poetry, Vanasco shows the reader that memoir can entail an unexpected, ultimately liberating reckoning.\n—John Keene, author of COUNTERNARRATIVES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have never read anything quite like \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . I've never read a book where the author is experiencing mental illness at the time of writing, not in retrospect. The writing is fierce and engaging, and I truly couldn't put it down.\n—Courtney Flynn, Trident Booksellers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeannie Vanasco has crafted a book that will worm its way under your skin, a book that will not give you easy answers or heartwarming takeaways, much in the same way that life will not give you easy answers or heartwarming takeaways. Jeannie Vanasco has created a book that I cannot stop thinking about.—Emily Ballaine, Green Apple Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn absolutely beautiful exploration of family, grief, memory, and madness, this book is outstanding. . . . The layers found in this memoir are as plentiful as the layers found in the human eye; ultimately, it is as deeply layered as the human experience itself.—Jamie Thomas, Women \u0026amp; Children First\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unfettered dive into a brilliant, unraveling mind. Vanasco's memoir is visceral, poignant, and ultimately an affirmation of the healing power of literature and the resilience of the human soul. Astounding.—Keaton Patterson, Brazos Bookstore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn experimental memoir that would make Maggie Nelson proud, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary tour de force, a hurricane of language and emotions that fly off the page, a testament to love and loss and how the lexicon of grief, though universal, is always a personal discourse.\n—Rachel Kaplan, Avid Bookshop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnchanting \u003ci\u003e. . .\u003c\/i\u003e Vanasco's humor and intelligence shine through her journey of loss.\n—Sarah Goddin, Quail Ridge Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is memoir at its best. The prose is powerful and often breathtaking—it’ll make your heart break, it might make you cry, and you’ll probably even laugh a few times. This is an elegy fierce and lyrical and raw, like none I’ve read before.—Sarah Malley, Newtonville Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is absolutely brilliant! Jeannie Vanasco taps into her own mental and emotional destruction after her father dies in a memoir that is constructed like no other. Not only did her writing transport me into her world (her mind), but Jeannie’s ability to express the complexities of the human mind in such a beautiful and honest way, made her mania appear almost rational. . . . One of the best memoirs I’ve read in a long time.\n—Stephanie Coleman, Tattered Cover Bookstore\u003cb\u003eJeannie Vanasco\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the memoirs \u003ci\u003eThings We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Eye\u003c\/i\u003e. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233673785573,"sku":"NP9781941040775","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781941040775.jpg?v=1767739550","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-glass-eye-isbn-9781941040775","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}