Pieces on family, masculinity, violence, J.D. Salinger, Mary Kay Letourneau, suicide, schizophrenia, orphanages, whale hunting and the strange ruins of American life. 

These are essays of digression and return, where personal history keeps brushing against public damage, and where thinking is more like staying within the storm within.

 For readers of Leslie Jamison, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Eula Biss, Maggie Nelson’s essayistic mode, or anyone who likes nonfiction with pulse, doubt, and proper prose. Tin House published Loitering in 2014, gathering the long out-of-print essays from Orphans with newer and previously uncollected work.

First U.S. edition, third printing, published by Tin House in 2014. Paperback in very good condition, with light shelf wear to cover edges and corners.