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We don't experience memory in linear fashion, nor even in a strictly coherent one. It's peppered with tangents and strange loops. It's multithreaded. It's not always made up of words. Why should a memoir strive to strip memory completely of this context?
ally is an ergodic, arborescent, semiautobiographical work about identity, mental health, spirituality, and the mutability of the past. A lot of the information contained within is real, some of it isn’t. Each page is structured as a conversation between myself and my ally, a mirror reflection of myself.
Based off the interactive project at ally.id, this book explores different facets of my life — some true, some embellished, some wholly fictitious — in a non-linear, ergodic fashion, using color, page-layout, and mixed-media to create a book more experience than memoir.
Buying
The paperback is now available for pre-order. All copies ordered direct are signed. You can also pre-order from Amazon or Barnes & Noble
You can also pre-order the PDF ebook. I have yet to figure out how to sign those. Sorry.
Content warning
Several sections focus on suicide, self-harm, rape, sexual content, and poor mental health.
Advance praise
I feel as though when I was reading this, I was chasing down sparkling fractions of the author's soul. Chasing them not because I got this to read and review, but because I deeply wanted to. So I could put all those fractions together and solve an ultimate puzzle whose picture would contain some incomprehensible beauty. A picture I found myself desperately wanting to witness.
There were parts of this I identified with so much as a trans woman living with so many queer experiences. These were words I had never been able to put onto paper myself, words I needed to see and read. Words that let me know I wasn't alone in these struggles.
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- ISBN: 9781948743150