A review by spinesinaline
Obit by Victoria Chang

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

A poetry collection that deals quite heavily in personal and familial grief. Chang’s poems each take the form of an obituary, grieving the loss of language, time, and hope, among others, in the wake of her father’s stroke and worsening amnesia and her mother’s illness and death.

It’s a very heavy collection and feels a bit like drowning as Chang uses these poems to make sense of her emotions and put her grief to words. Some of the poems really resonated and I enjoyed the unique obituary style, but there were some sections that had more of an abstract format and they’ll likely take me a few more read-throughs to really grasp.

Thanks to Cori @ Bookish Cori on IG for her review that brought this one to my attention!
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