Afflictions and Departures

Literary Nonfiction. AFFLICTIONS AND DEPARTURES is a collection of first-person experiential essays. However, this is not the realm of traditional memoir—in addition to incidents and feelings recaptured from memory, Sonik seeks out connections between the microcosm of the daily events of her childhood and adolescence, and the social, historical, and scientific trends of the time. AFFLICTIONS AND DEPARTURES begins by considering the turbulent and changing nature of the world in the late 1950...