The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" (Slate)

Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal essay with The Unspeakable, a powerful collection of ten new works.

Where her previous collection explores what it is to be a struggling twenty-something urban dweller with an overdrawn ban...