Another Love Discourse

This lyric novel follows a writer through a single harrowing year. She is caught between a fraught divorce and a new love, while also coping with her mother's death and a global pandemic. In the middle of it all she becomes obsessed with the work of Roland Barthes, the French philosopher of the 1960s.

As she struggles to make sense of his writing and his life, and of what can happen to a woman's settled existence in so short a time, the book moves through grief, empathy, old and new love, and an effort to overcome blindness in human relations. Its tone ranges from funny to earthy.

The novel also pursues authenticity in motherhood, in sexuality, and in tenancy on the earth and in the home. Its unusual lyric form is unified in spirit but transdisciplinary in approach.