I'm Never Fine: Scenes & Spasms on Loss by Joseph Lezza / Memoir, Essays

Beautifully written with such raw honesty, author Joseph Lezza's memoir is as brilliant as it vows to be. We discuss his prompt to write this memoir as well as his process in going through the grief that ignited this book. This is such a powerful book and a great discussion.

About the book:

In I'm Never Fine, a collage memoir of essays and poetry, Joseph Lezza shouts in the dark from the backseat of a stranger’s car, a ditch on the Italian coast, a forest outside the arctic, and from the bottom of a shaving cream can.

When Joseph caught himself wishing necrotizing skin infections upon unhurried retirees in the self checkout lane, and fantasized about loud-talking commuters making quick friends with the underside of a steamroller, he began to wonder if he was fine.

Of all the things Joseph Lezza could have been, he certainly wasn't fine.

This memoir is an autopsy of perceived missteps, a conclusion to unfinished conversations, and a reframing of flawed judgments through the eyes of a young man in search of a feeling. Search for that feeling with Joseph Lezza in I'm Never Fine.

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Joseph Lezza's site

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