bleales 's review for:

The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande by Angela Garcia

5.0

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“i would add that seeing and experiencing the world and the past as painful—and to not appropriate, forget, or sublimate this pain for other purposes—is likewise a way of living in the world. in other words, there is meaning in melancholia, meaning in wounds that haven’t healed, perhaps may never heal.”

holy shit this took me forever to finish but this is genuinely one of the most incredible books i have ever read in my LIFE ?