Book Review - i'm not ghosting you

I've decided to occasionally feature book reviews for work that resonates with me. Check out this review of Jeremy Fernando's i'm not ghosting you.

Review:

i’m not ghosting you burrows its way deep into our bones and takes us on a philosophical expedition through words and the fragility of human connections (and their absences). The book’s highly experimental style forms an artful collage of ideas and paints broad strokes across Fernando’s belief that the “sunset of [his] grief [fills] the whole sky.”

The jarring visuals in this splintered, broken narrative reveal in no uncertain terms that writing doesn’t merely inform but “takes shape in you, fills you,” becoming “the only solid pillar in the windswept situation we call our lives.”

Fernando whispers to us, sings to us, the insights of a wide range of thinkers and writers, and his fragments—punctuated by photographs—resist interpretation. The collection is best approached as a visceral experience rather than something to be dissected. I’m not ghosting you gifts us with something enduring, something honest, and at times uncomfortable—language we can feel like stones in the pits of our stomachs. Fernando undoubtedly manages to achieve his wish “to write something beautiful."

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