The Mourner’s Bestiary, the debut memoir of Chicago-based author and musician Eiren Caffall, weaves a complex tapestry. It details Caffall’s harrowing experience with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), environmental collapse in the Gulf of Maine and Long Island Sound (landscapes from her childhood), and parenting as a single mom of a child who may or may […]
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