Fusing personal diary and memory-embroidered observation, it leaves space for big, knotty questions Can one feel sad without being sad? As she tells the story of Lolabelle, a puppy mill adoptee turned cherished family member, her occasional musing about our new surveillance state — cameras everywhere, your conversations recorded — may seem incongruous.
But Anderson somehow connects it all as a sort of dream logic philosophizing on our stewardship of the senses as we move through our days. After years of telling others about her time there, she arrived at a grave epiphany about this carefully crafted narrative of hers, and the revelation is heart-stopping, a shattering insight into how our own stories sustain us but also unwittingly shield us.
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