Lifeline: An Elegy

What happens when someone you love suddenly cliff-dives into mental illness? And then you discover that there may be no return?

This experimental memoir reflects on the author’s intimate and complicated relationship with a woman diagnosed with suicidal depression, and the startling and chaotic new world of locked wards, heavy medications, and electroconvulsive therapy that follows.

Interweaving personal essays, fragmented prose, poetry, stream-of-consciousness, and text exchanges, this coll...