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Maggie Nelson Pathemata

Or, The Story of My Mouth

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Vintage Publishing

UK

2026

Paperback

68

Light

328197

978-1-5299-5136-3

1-5299-5136-4

Coping with death & bereavement

Annotation

This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer. Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.

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