Nox | 
#missingperson #newyearnewbook While definitely not my favorite of her works, this “book in a box” is a singular reading experience. “Nox is a eulogy for Anne Carson's brother, Micheal. In 1978 he ran away to Europe to avoid going to jail. For the next 22 years he communicated sporadically with his family. Some letters and postcards with no return addresses and a handful of phone calls were all that Carson knew of her brother.”
bailedWhile I did really enjoy the novel experiential act of reading this, it‘s not for me. It‘s odd and obscure even by Anne Carson‘s standards and I was just having too much trouble wrapping my brain around the thread of it.
Find Anne Carson's wonderfully eclectic booklist here: https://www.strandbooks.com/the-authors-bookshelf
A fitting passage for Father's Day, I suppose.
I thought this book was beautiful and full of psychological complexity. As someone who is both a classics nerd and a poet, this book felt very deep to me, every part of it necessary.
