The Shapeless Unease
A Year of Not Sleeping
Struck by the sudden and untimely death of her cousin, and distressed by the terrible political order, Samantha Harvey finds that she cannot sleep. There is nothing wrong with her, or there is everything wrong with her, or there is everything wrong in the world—in the grief that has passed and in all the grief that is yet to come. Mordant and morbid, suffused with anxiety, The Sleepless Unease is as much a meditation on being in a world marked by intolerable uncertainty, global-scale grift, and constant noise as it is about that most basic human need. A worthwhile companion on many a sleepless night.