ally

We don’t experience memory in linear fashion, nor even in a strictly coherent one. It’s peppered with tangents and strange loops. It’s multithreaded. It’s not always made up of words. Why should a memoir strive to strip memory completely of this context? “Cleareyed yet powerfully immediate . . . A fresh, daring exploration of lived experience.”— Kirkus Reviews ally is an ergodic, arborescent, se…