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Description
“It is a confusing thing to be born between generations where the one above thinks nothing is trauma and the one below thinks everything is trauma.”
From acclaimed novelist and television writer Zoe Whittall comes a memoir in prose poetry that reconfirms her celebrated honesty, emotional acuity, and wit. Riving and probing a period of six years marked by abandoned love, the pain of a lost pregnancy, and pandemic isolation, No Credit River is a reckoning with the creative instinct itself.
Open and exacting, this is a unique examination of anxiety in complex times, and a contribution to contemporary autofiction as formally inventive as it is full of heart.
Editorial Reviews
"Nadine Gordimer said that "writing is making sense of life.” This, as Whittall writes, is her working to make the most sense of it all." —rob mclennan
"I think No Credit River by Zoe Whittall, deserves all the credit for not just encapsulating the complexities of queer relationships, bisexuality, middle age, or for writing a successful “poetry-prose memoir” hybrid, but for making heartbreak real and anxieties that often get hushed apparent: things that make human beings human, and sad, and vulnerable in tender, moving poems that demand rereading." —The Woodlot
