Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment…
“When a loved one dies, there’s all this stuff to deal with, and in the midst of grief we begin to collect, sort, document, store, and discard. Andrea Actis has taken the stuff surrounding her father’s death and created a book that is, like grief, in turns heartbreaking, wise, chaotic, drunk, wry, and always unflinchingly honest. This powerful testament of survival is for anyone who has felt the ‘déjà vu in reverse’ of grief. It is for the living.” —Sachiko Murakami
“Love letter, experimental poem, meditation, conversation with the dead—Andrea Actis’s compelling debut is unlike any memoir I’ve ever read. In one passage, Actis digs out the biggest piece of bone she can find in the vessel of her father’s ashes and gently bites on it. Reading Grey All Over I had a similar sensation. Ash. Bone. Love.” —Jen Currin
“This absolutely beautiful work makes plain that seriousness feels like love.”
—Aisha Sasha John
GREY ALL OVER MEDIA & INTERVIEWS:
+ Adaptation/performance/launch of Grey All Over
+ Interview by Mieke de Vries for the Victoria Festival of Authors
+ Interview by Nada Alic for The Rumpus
+ Interview for Open Book
+ "Under the Cover” for All Lit Up
+ “Soul Ash” (excerpt published in The Capilano Review)
+ “Does Andrea Dream of Electric Dead” for the One-Minute Poem Series
Read more about Grey All Over and purchase here.
Other good places to order from:
+ Massy Books
+ Iron Dog Books
+ your local independent bookstore
+ for US orders:
bookshop.org