5/10/2023 0 Comments The Glass Eye by Jeannie Vanasco![]() ![]() The memoir is formatted in fragments, or excerpts: memories, conversations, and events which add up to a cohesive (and largely chronological) whole. Vanasco obsesses over details, events, conversations-are they remembered correctly? Do they help demonstrate who her father was? What emerges in her attempts to answer these questions is not only a rich portrait of a flawed man who meant the world to his youngest daughter, but a rich portrait of her own humanity. The book isn’t plot driven it doesn’t try to create a single, simple, chronological narrative. “Describing my dad through the metaphor of his eye comes easy encapsulating him in plain language feels impossible.” The title alludes to her father’s “glass” eye, which she only fixated on after he died. How does she grieve over this tremendous loss? How does she encompass his life story (and hers) in a book? Vanasco acutely and poignantly maps her struggle with the process of writing the book as well as the struggles which make up its content. ![]() It is, foremost, a memoir, documenting the life and death of Jeannie’s beloved father through the lens of Jeannie herself. ![]() Over the next ten years, Jeannie Vanasco attempted to fulfill that promise: numerous attempts to write about her father, all called The Glass Eye, followed this powerful book is the culmination of that project. “The night before he died, I promised my dad I would write a book for him.” ![]()
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