Courtney Maum — The Year of the Horses
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Year of the Horses, a Book Review
Costalegre started as non fiction and then became a novela. The book opens with you losing patience with your two year old daughter, a around her elaborate socks routine. And also your first visit with the new therapists, with him administering a depression intake survey. But the sub text of these opening scenes is, i think, perhaps that you've been living this way, not quite calling it depression, let alone major depression, for a long time. Ah, from a reader's perspective, i think it's the depression that organizes the memoir. It's what brings you to re evaluate your choices, to find something outside, outside of your immediate family from your childhood,. which in turn
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