The Grief Manuscript - by Frankie Rollins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This flash fiction novella, The Grief Manuscript, illustrates the dream-like, annihilating, and repetitive gestures of a dying marriage. The story recasts the emotional range of grief using metaphorical images and remarkable characters in brief, poetic scenes.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This flash fiction novella, <em>The Grief Manuscript</em>, illustrates the dream-like, annihilating, and repetitive gestures of a dying marriage. The story recasts the emotional range of grief using metaphorical images and remarkable characters in brief, poetic scenes. The recently separated narrator inhabits a series of temporary houses as she faces the devastating and radical identity changes that come with divorce. Grief activates the narrator's demon, who appears in the form of a small monster, the Burden Animal, who torments her with her previous humiliations and belief that she is a burden to those who love her. Magical realism offers images of personal torment, where the narrator's head falls off, spiders crawl up her throat, her tongue escapes, and the fields of her psyche burn. It isn't until the narrator accepts the full expanse of her grief that she can see a way to move forward to what is "next."</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Here are remnants carried over from the surreal specificity of living in the threshold of loss. Rollins' power lies not in getting over but in her attention while being in the midst. In fact, this is her invitation, her demand, and her gift. Open this book knowing you'll be greeted by pain so pure as to border on the ecstatic. Expect, too, to be seared by immaculate images, ransacked by dexterous tonal range, and shorn to the bone by the wry sweep of grief written into, which is not to say explained. Each time I read <em>The Grief Manuscript</em>, I am wildly undone, genuinely grateful, and profoundly impressed.</p><p><strong>--TC Tolbert</strong></p><p> </p><p>A proper diagnosis, that is to say, clarity, is only achieved when suffering has been properly examined. In the author's expert hands, heartache can be catalogued into slides of "sore memories" and "cut-out wounds." The "Grief Manuscript" chronicles a relationship's built up symptoming, as the speaker sorts through attic boxes, photo albums, and remembered conversations. Frankie Karamazov Rollins deftly handles an accumulation of imagined, memoried and physical pain as it occurs across time. As slides of these moments are reviewed, the bacterial environs of grief are recreated, ultimately providing the speaker with clues to the way out of this "angled" pairing, and grief itself is confronted, lured to its final resting place.</p><p><strong>--Annie Guthrie</strong>, author of <em>The Good Dark</em></p><p> </p><p>Grief is often such a fog of pain and confusion, but here Frankie Rollins slices, examines, and reveals it with poetic precision, letting us find pleasure in the discoveries. <em>The Grief Manuscript</em> is the work of a skilled feeler and observer, a fierce narrator who dives deep into an ending marriage to find her own wholeness, aided by a cast of remarkable characters who allow laughter to pierce the sorrow. For anyone who has ever loved and lost, this book will serve not as a voyeuristic relief, but an empathetic companion.</p><p><strong>--Kimi Eisele</strong>, author of <em>THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE</em></p><br>
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