Gone Gone [Paperback]

InGone 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 Goneis 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.USIn a blend of prose, poetry, and ethnography, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis.Todd Meyers is Professor and Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University and author of, most recently,All That Was Not Her, also published by Duke University Press.“Like snowflakes on your tongue,Gone Gonemelts 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?”Nancy D. Campbell, author of,OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose

"In tender and photographic prose, Meyers documents and dilates upon the lives of three people (or characters?)—their loves, jokes, overdoses, shoplifting convictions, childhoods, joys, losses. Over the past two decades we’ve seen a great deal of excellent reporting and fiction on the mass casualty event that is opioid addiction; this is the first account I’ve found that must be respirated rather than read. Effortlessly intricate."Molly Young,New York Times Book Review

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