An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination

I've got an enormous amount of respect and affection for Elizabeth McCracken, as a writer and as a human being. She's got a memoir coming out in September, and there is an excerpt from it up now at O magazine:

This Does Not Have To Be A Secret

This is how it starts:

Once upon a time, before I knew anything about the subject, a woman told me that I should write a book about the lighter side of losing a child.

(This is not that book.)


The memoir is called An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination, and you can pre-order it here.