Everywhere I Look: A Memoir

by Ona Gritz

Overview

In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, along with her husband and infant son. Ill equipped for the horror of that violence and the enormity of her loss, Angie’s sister Ona, a college sophomore, felt numb. She also felt deeply ashamed of her inability to grieve. But shame, like her sister’s absence, was something Ona knew well. For as long as she could remember, she’d felt ashamed of being their parents’ blatantly favored child. The disabled daughter they’d coddled and protected while they alternately punished and neglected Angie and finally sent her away. It wasn’t until thirty years after the murders, both their parents gone and Ona nearly twice the age Angie was allowed to reach, that she developed the courage and a detective’s compulsion to learn all shecould about her sister’s turbulent life and unthinkable death. The result is Everywhere I Look, a beautifully rendered memoir of sisterhood, longing, true crime, and family secrets. A profoundly moving reckoning and love letter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781627205092
Publisher:	Apprentice House
Publication date:	04/16/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ona Gritz holds a Master of Arts in poetry from the creative writing program at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of August Or Forever, a Reader’s Choice and Wishing Shelf finalist in middle grade fiction. Ona’s nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, The Guardian, The New York Times, River Teeth, The Rumpus, The Utne Reader, and been named Notable in The Best American Essays and Best of the Year in Salon. Ona lives with her husband, writer Daniel Simpson, near Philadelphia.