Heather Christle

‘In a memoir that pulses with feeling and intelligence, [Christle] excavates the past to expose difficult truths’ Guardian When Heather Christle realises that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertwine each of their stories, in search of a more hopeful narrative and a future she can live with. During a rare...

'A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book' Esme Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias 'Spellbinding and propulsive' Leni Zeumas, author of Red Clocks The Crying Book is a rigorous and urgent work but it reads like an intimate gift' Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf A DAZZLING MEDITATION ON TEARS In this symphonic work of non-fiction,...

‘[Heather Christle is] among the small handful of authors whose books I reflexively, half-consciously reach toward whenever I need inspiration, consolation, delight. Nobody thinks like her’ - Kaveh Akbar, Electric Literature ‘This is a stunning book’ - Jericho Brown ‘A striking celebration of risk and beauty’ - Kit Fan, Guardian Paper Crown is Heather Christle’s first new collection of poems...