WHAT ISN'T THERE
If there is to be real peace—the “fierce continual flame” of peace that the poet Muriel Rukeyser writes of—Jocelyn Lieu hopes that she, and others like her, may place the cataclysmic event of September 11 back in the realm of lived experience where it belongs.

WHAT ISN’T THERE is a memoir by Jocelyn Lieu, who has crafted her own interpretations, almost parables, as a result of —as she says—“the catastrophe inside my imagination” following 9/11, a stunning “shrapnel” of narratives about her evolving experience as a mother and a writer. By telling her story—the true story of a woman who lived on the ground once called ground zero—she hopes, in some small way, to rescue the day from symbolism.

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