A review by megclemens
Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties by Suzanne Roberts

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

The Prose is lyrical in it’s precision and you feel can  the authors formidable vulnerability and honesty in every essay. The emotions and experiences that we tend to shy away from, conceal, misunderstand, make up the themes of these essays.  

Some highlights for me: 

• the grief scale and how grief is a part of the human experience we all share, while also being completely unique to each person and situation. 
• exploration of sexuality in a world that both overtly sexualizes women and also punishes them for being sexual. 
• the mention of hatchbacks and the childhood nostalgia of ‘the way back’ 
• how trauma can pile up simply through just existing. the traumas we have yet to process don’t just go away during wildfire season or a global pandemic, etc.

I think everyone could learn a bit more about themselves through reading these essays.