Description: A surprising and lyrical journey — part-memoir, part-nature book — meditating on the meaning of flatness and its literary tradition to find ways to understand ourselves and our trauma in one of nature’s most undervalued wonders.
Does the concept of flat have an undeservedly bad rap? There are centuries’ worth of adoration for rolling hills and dramatic, mountainous landscapes. In contrast, flat landscapes are forgettable and seemingly unworthy of poetic or artistic attention.
Noreen Masud has been fascinated with flatness, and our connection to it (or lack thereof), for decades, and finds in these places a solace and opportunity to reflect on mental well-being and self-hood, which make them just as poetic and valuable as the sublime.
Citing the works of Percy Shelley, Willa Cather, W. G. Sebald and many others, Masud combines memoir, nature writing and literary reflection to explore what can be drawn from these powerful places, and to understand her own experience of complex trauma and post-traumatic stress, as well as grief and loss. A FLAT PLACE is a book that drives to the heart of what it means to experience place — bodily and psychologically — and the healing properties of literature and landscape.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Flat Place : Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd), Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies, Personal Memoirs, General, Europe / Great Britain, Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd)
Genre: Nature, Travel, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Item Weight: 10 oz
Author: Noreen Masud
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
