![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. This bestselling “lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study” is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression ( The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle is a visionary writer.” -Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks “Spellbinding and propulsive-the map of a luminous mind in conversation with books, songs, friends, scientific theories, literary histories, her own jagged joy, and despair. A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book.” -Esmé Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias “A poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears-exhaustive, yes, but also open-ended. ![]()
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