Molly by Blake Butler

A feverish, hybrid elegy in which a grieving spouse tries to reconstruct the life and death of their partner by combing through memories, messages, and digital traces. Fragmentary and recursive, it braids love, ambition, illness, betrayal, and trauma with probing questions about memory, culpability, and the ethics of turning a life into art. The result is a raw, unsettling portrait of grief and the limits of narrative control.

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