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abecedary structure
Author_Sebastian Matthews
balancing art and life
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collage technique
depression
dispatch
encounter
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family life
fatherhood
fatherhood and family life
flash
flash nonfiction
hybrid storytelling
literary citizen
married life
memoir
memoir-in-essays
mental health awareness
microaggression
mosaic structure
pandemic
pandemic reflections
parenting
personal and political
personal narrative
PTSD
recover
trauma
trauma and recovery
travel
vulnerability and resilience
white privilege
Product details
- ISBN 9781636282442
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Patient Body: A Personal Narrative in Pieces chronicles one man’s journey as he attempts to lead a balanced life as a father, husband, friend, and literary citizen during traumatic times.
Written as a mosaic of ‘flash’ encounters, meditations, memories, and travel pieces, The Patient Body explores the ways the past resides inside the present and the present points to an uncertain future. An abecedary lies at the center of the book, composed for a former self, the twenty-six ‘micro’ sections create a dialogue that plays out across the divide created by a devastating car accident that changed everything.
Sebastian Matthews is the author of the memoir-in-essays Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State and the hybrid collection Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision. His other publications include two books of poems, the memoir In My Father’s Footsteps, the collage novel The Life and Times of American Crow, and a collaboration with photographer Charter Weeks entitled Travelogue. He works as a writing coach and leads workshops for the Great Smokies Writing Program in Asheville, NC.
