One of the best memoirs I've read in a long time., In The Glass Eye the writer asks, in prose that mesmerizes with geometric precision, how we can orient ourselves to the world when our only compass is grief. Not only did her writing transport me into her world (her mind), but Jeannie's ability to express the complexities of the human mind in such a beautiful and honest way, made her mania appear almost rational. If you want to read something that will make you think and that will keep revealing more to you every time you read it, this is the book., The Glass Eye is absolutely brilliant! Jeannie Vanasco taps into her own mental and emotional destruction after her father dies in a memoir that is constructed like no other. I've never read a book where the author is experiencing mental illness at the time of writing, not in retrospect. The writing is fierce and engaging, and I truly couldn't put it down., One of the most inventive and engrossing memoirs I've read in a long, long time.

I have never read anything quite like The Glass Eye. . A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, The Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery. Jeannie Vanasco pulls us into her unraveling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. It becomes a puzzle Jeannie feels she must solve to better understand herself and her father. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals-increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died.

The night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him.

For fans of Maggie Nelson and Meghan O'Rourke, Jeannie Vanasco emerges as a definitive new voice in this stunning portrait of a daughter's love for her father and her near-unraveling after his death.

The glass eye a memoir