A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, The Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery.

Jeannie Vanasco pulls us into her unraveling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. It becomes a puzzle Jeannie feels she must solve to better understand herself and her father. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. Her work has appeared in The Believer, the New York Times Modern Love. The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died.Īfter his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals-increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Jeannie Vanasco is the author of The Glass Eye: A Memoir (Tin House Books, 2017).

The night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. The Glass Eye begins, refreshingly, with a happy childhood.

Is grief an illness, a part of illness, or a separate entity unto itself Essayist and poet Jeannie Vanasco expertly explores the trinity between grief, psychosis, and creativity in a taut memoir about her beloved father and all that arose in his absence. As the pages fly by, we're right by Vanasco, breathlessly experiencing her grief, mania, revelations, and-ultimately - her relief.' -Entertainment WeeklyĪ Poets & Writers' Best Nonfiction Debut of 2017Ī Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers Pickįor fans of Maggie Nelson and Meghan O'Rourke, Jeannie Vanasco emerges as a definitive new voice in this stunning portrait of a daughter's love for her father and her near-unraveling after his death. The Glass Eye Jeannie Vanasco Tin House Books October 3 15.95.

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