“Levitt’s careful attention to the scenes of her own trauma do not reveal her ‘self’ to us, her readers, however. Instead, her words initiate a harmonic resonance between the objects in (and of) her traumatic memory and the objects in (and of) other traumas, other experiences, and other wounded sites of memory and loss. In writing toward these resonances, Levitt herself is both in the story and on the banks of its flow, both the object (subject) of reflection–as in a confession–but also able to step outside the flow of the story by showing up the process of thinking and writing.” (M. Gail Hamner)
Read the full review essay: https://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/laura-levitt-the-objects-that-remain/?fbclid=IwAR2n812JjxHnE8UH0ufmYq8Tle_USD6xdgSys0Qt5nlVOwEyoN0X3Der3Wc