Dependency
by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Michael Favala Goldman
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“Dependency is startlingly unlike any other memoir about addiction. It doesn’t telegraph from the start that it’s a story about addiction. In a person’s real life, addiction always arrives as a horrific shock, a jarring and outrageous disruption of narrative order. Dependency is the only book I’ve read that captures that experience. Told in the present tense, the result is a stunningly immersive and intimate story. We seem to experience Ditlevsen’s life with her, moment by vivid moment.” Read more...
Matt Rowland Hill, Memoirist
