Linne Gravestock
Linne Gravestock is a therapist who lives in Oakland, California.
— From October 1980
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Iowa Diary
I often feel, in this mixture of silence, isolation, ignorance and pettiness, that if I were struck by a virus, I wouldn’t fight it; I’d give up and implode and disappear. Dangerous signals, those. Not that I will put any effort into taking my life — I feel in large measure that it’s already taken. So I have to leave this place, and fight to get it back.
October 1980
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Tchad — A Memoir
Tchad, in the front seat, turned to me in the back, waved his arms expansively and yelled above the traffic noise, “Tell us again how your grandmother barks like a dog, Linne! Tell it again!”
August 1980
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