Codependence

By Amy Long

Book Overview

Winner of the 2018 CSU Poetry Center Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Brian Blanchfield. Fearless, haunting, and transcendently honest, Amy Long's Codependence is a memoir of pain and its paradoxes. Long documents her coming of age as an ambitious young writer plagued by chronic headache and entangled with a boyfriend's opioid addiction. The essays that result explore the complexities of care, hurt, and hope with elegance and precision. Long exposes her every nerve, crafting a story both intimate and deeply relevant. An essential book for the opioid era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188083412X
• ISBN13: 9781880834121
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 7.9"