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The Shapeless Unease

A Year of Not Sleeping

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The Shapeless Unease

By: Samantha Harvey
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Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you think about it only when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It becomes the prism through which you see the world, and nothing can exist except in relation to it.

Samantha Harvey’s insomnia arrived, seemingly, from nowhere; for a year she has spent her nights chasing sleep that rarely comes. She’s tried everything to appease it. Nothing is helping.

What happens when one of the basic human needs goes unmet? For Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself. Original and profound, The Shapeless Unease is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and grief, and the will to survive.

©2020 Samantha Harvey (P)2020 Penguin Audio Art & Literature Authors Biographies & Memoirs
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Cried and laughed in equal measures. Kept finding excuses to go out for a walk so I could finish listening to it.

Fantastic book and narration.

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