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Fourteen Ways of Looking
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Deeply affecting. Grief blows a life into shards, and Vincent assembles here the precious fragments. Fourteen Ways of Looking is a deep dive into the moment after which nothing is the same— life as afterlife, and yet it’s what we have. Vincent’s effort is both psychological and literary: trying to wrangle meaning from an event that may have none, or may hold it all. And what then, of her autonomy to make her own life? In her efforts to free herself by going back to the source of trauma, she is both Odysseus and Euridice, damned and saved. A remarkable achievement.
Anna Funder
Fourteen Ways of Looking
About the Book:
When Erin Vincent was fourteen both of her parents were killed in a road accident. Almost forty years later the number 14 began haunting Erin, appearing everywhere – in the books she was reading, in films, TV shows, in the news... Fourteen. 14. This felt like a sign, so Erin embarked on a quest to seek out instances of fourteen throughout history. To her surprise, much of what she found related to her life at fourteen, so she began writing it all down. The result, Fourteen Ways of Looking, is a memoir written in fragments that looks at the year Erin's parents died. It is also the story of a writer reflecting on her life and her grief and commenting on the writing process as it progresses.
About the Author:
Erin Vincent is the author of Grief Girl (Macmillan), which was named a New York Public Library Best Book and an American Library Association Best Book Nominee. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, the Guardian, Electric Literature, and the Offing, among other publications. She holds a Master of Arts in creative writing from the University of Technology Sydney and is currently studying for a PhD in creative writing.
ISBN: 978-1-7637331-7-6