Scrap Book

"Utilizing ekphrasis and excerpts from the author's mother's journal, this book creates a textural interior landscape. Deeply personal and intimate, the speaker wrestles with identity, the way in which they view themselves and their relationships to others, highlighting how slippery the act of knowing (or trying to know) can really be. What does it mean when how we see ourselves differs from how others see us, and how does it affect our psyches when we're confronted with these discrepancies? In even our most intimate relationships, can we ever really know how others see us? If we knew how others saw us, would it change how we see ourselves? And how would it? This book poses large questions about human relationships and one's relationship to themselves/the ego"-- Provided by publisher.