Stephanie Clare Smith
In praise of Everywhere the Undrowned
"Everywhere the Undrowned offers an account of trauma and its aftermath more acute than any I have read. Reminiscent in places of Sylvia Plath at her sharpest and most bleakly funny, it deserves to become a classic."
—Emma Brockes, author of She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me
"Stephanie’s writing shines a light on the possibilities of language and the human spirit."
—Abigail DeWitt, author of News of Our Loved Ones
"In lyrical, metaphor-rich prose fragments that mine the cosmos, television, and avian life for meaning, Smith offers a harrowing yet hopeful look at the long road to recovery..."
—Publisher's Weekly
"I turned loneliness into trees and trees into dancers,' Stephanie Clare Smith writes in this gut-punching and gorgeous memoir. While there's trauma in these pages, Smith traverses the spaces of an abundant imagination that made survival possible."
—Robin Hemley, author of Oblivion: An After Autobiography
A MASTERFUL LITERARY MEMOIR
— #1 Must Read Memoir, STARRED review, Kirkus
SILENCE MIGHT HELP YOU COPE, BUT IT'S NOT HOW YOU SURVIVE.
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...A WORK OF LITERATURE.
— Washington Post - view as PDF
...A TRIBUTE TO WOMEN WHO DID WHAT THEY HAD TO, TO SURVIVE...YET STILL HELD ON TO THEIR CORES.
ONE OF THE TOP 12 PICKS FOR SPRING 2024.