ISBN: 0826364683 9780826364685

Category: Literary Collections / Essays

Page count: 248

Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Series<br><br><i>Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness</i> is a hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author’s stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family’s experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness by connecting his stepfather’s case to other true-life disappearances as well as those portrayed in fiction, poetry, and film. In doing so <i>Disequilibria</i> explores the transience in modern life, considering the military-dependent experience, the corrosive effects of war, and the struggle to find closure and comfort as time goes by without answers.