Gone Gone

In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis. Through conversations with friends, lovers, and family members of those who are gone, Meyers brings readers into an inquiry about lives shared, told through tenderness and tragedy. Meyers seeks to find methods to record and convey the many experiences of grief in ways that do not simply consign sorrow to the world of drugs and addiction. Blending prose, poetry, and ethnography, Gone Gone is a lucid and devastating record that reminds readers that the grief felt by those who lose ones they love to overdose is varied and untamable.

“Like snowflakes on your tongue, Gone Gone melts into the work of mourning. Moving in its minimalism, evocative in its questioning of the mass casualty event that the opioid overdose death crisis has morphed into, the book insistently asks: Who are the gone gone and how are they still with us?”

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