Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder

In Ravelings, Lisa Knopp takes up an older, opposing meaning of the verb "ravel"--"to entangle"--as she explores the deaths and departures of loved ones and the rituals by which we mourn and honor them, while contemplating her relationships with writing, spirituality, sense of home, aging, desire, and the relationship between body and mind. Entangled in these losses and changes, Knopp experiences wonder, joy, connectivity, and wholeness.

In these nimble and companionable essays, Knopp consid...