“If you feel your feelings physically in your body, you can release them. “

My first book by Zoe Whittall but certainly not my last. 

This a memoir told over a collection of prose poetry that oscillate between past and present over a six year period, before the pandemic and during the lockdowns. 

The anxiety that Zoe feels is palpable in these 74 pages, you can’t help but feel her pain, her loss, her indecision. For many of us we have been in the same space, being an adult woman in your 30s and 40s is really weird and can be unnerving and unsettling. Zoe bares all here, sharing deeply intimate vulnerable moments and in the end you’ll feel like she is your friend and you let out a sigh of relief that someone else knows how it feels. 

Some of my favourite pieces (that I have a vision to turn into a bit of an art project):

Tell Me How You Know, What You Know. 

I’d Like a Double Espresso & The National on Repeat. 

Stolen Daylight

The Somatic Craze

Thank you bookhug press and zgreads for my copy. No Credit River will be available October 29th and I can’t think of a better time to read this. When the weather starts to change and a new season is on the horizon.