The Untangling: Volume 2: Essays

· Glass Bottle Press · Narrated by Tiffany Chu
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Some griefs have names. Others don't.

There are five dates Tiffany Chu carries like stones in her chest. A best friendship that ended not with a fight, but with silence. A mother's apology that came thirty years too late. A faith dismantled by the very church that built it.

And underneath all of it: a son who existed for eighteen years, and then didn't.

The Untangling, Volume 2 is for everyone who has sat in the rubble of something they loved—a person, a belief, a relationship—and had to figure out what to do next. In essays that move from miscarriage to purity culture to the slow death of a grandmother who still asks have you eaten?, Tiffany writes with the kind of unflinching tenderness that makes you feel less alone at 2 a.m.

This is not a book that ties grief into a bow. It is a book that stays in the room with you.

For readers of The Year of Magical Thinking, When Breath Becomes Air, and Crying in H Mart—and for anyone who has ever loved someone they couldn't save.

Some griefs have names. Others don't. There are five dates Tiffany Chu carries like stones in her chest. A best friendship that ended not with a fight, but with silence. A mother's apology that came thirty years too late. A faith dismantled by the very church that built it. And underneath all of ...

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Tiffany Chu is a Taiwanese American literary fantasy author of stories that aim to stab your heart out with a spoon. She has been called "the queen of angsty beauty," and writes on evergreen themes of grief, belonging, and what it means to be human. Her essays and short stories have been published by Open Secrets Magazine, San Diego Writers, Ink, and Chicago Story Press. She is obsessed with J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and reads it religiously every year. When not reading or writing, you'll likely find Tiffany smothering her cavapoo, Kobi, with affection, or sneaking new books into the house when her husband's at work. Tiffany lives in San Diego with her husband and two surviving children. Connect with her at tiffanychu.org.
Tiffany Chu is a Taiwanese American literary fantasy author of stories that aim to stab your heart out with a spoon. She has been called "the queen of angsty beauty," and writes on evergreen themes of grief, belonging, and what it means to be human. Her essays and short stories have been publishe...

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