Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State

A Southern poet and author shares a "beautifully written and timely" memoir that "weaves together personal and national traumas" (David Graham, The Atlantic).

In 2011, Sebastian Matthews and his family were in a major car accident. It took them years to recover from their injuries and the aftereffects of trauma. When Sebastian finally returned to the world, he found society in its own a traumatized state—one brought on by police shootings of unarmed African Americans and the continuing o...