“Tell me, “your mother says. “How did I get here?” With short prose and shape poems, Inside, The World Is Orange interweaves 1970s suburbia and the author’s mother’s final months in an assisted living facility. Orleans grapples with fear and anger, resignation and strength, and her own entangled childhood.
Ellen Orleans’ elegy for her parents is wrenching and finely wrought. In spare, precise language all the more powerful for its restraint, she looks back with clear eyes to describe both what was and wasn’t there.
Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and The Secret to Superhuman Strength
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