ARGONAUT BOOKS

A prismatic memoir of loss and reckoning, as a young woman seeks to discover the lives of the parents she lost to AIDS, and what it means to 'go viral' in an era of explosive contagion. Reviews 'McCalden's sequence of itemized yet interlocking chapters - many less than a page long - is so surprising that this debut book feels revelatory…. She hires a private investigator to look into the life of her father, about whom she knows very little. This gives her story drive - rare in a collection of vignettes. But it becomes clear that for McCalden the facts of the past are ...Read More