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What Isn't There

Inside a Season of Change

Jocelyn Lieu
May 2007     ISBN: 156858346X



In What Isn't There, Jocelyn Lieu has crafted her own interpretations, almost parables, as a result of "the catastrophe inside my imagination" that followed September 11th.

By telling her experience--the story of a woman who lived near the land now called Ground Zero--Lieu rescues that day from symbolism and restores the event back to the realm of lived experience, where it belongs.









About the Authors

Jocelyn Lieu is the author of a collection of stories, Potential Weapons. She teaches writing at Eugene Lang College and The New School and lives in New York City.
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