The Echo and The Shore, by Hannah Liliana Lipschultz

Prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. The Echo and The Shore is a suite of essays on codependency, addiction, false hope, home, displacement, and the sanctioned spaces where collusion and collective delusion thrive. Woven together through brief and haunting prose, Hannah excavates the ruins of a decade-long romance, examining the architecture of delusion, the role that artifacts play in memory, the mental act of splitting, and a conditional capacity to love. Hannah wonders about what happens when houses are built on the cracked foundation of premise and fantasy and presents this offering for the brokenhearted: if you are grieving and holding tightly to love that hurt you that means your love was real. Hannah is a lifelong writer and has been scribbling in journals to try and understand the world around her since she was a really little kid. She is a therapist by trade, and a single mother to two bright and lovely children under six in her daily life. When she isn’t scribbling in journals, working with clients, or negotiating around snack options, she is trying to stay sane with a dedicated yoga practice, other women as her anchor, and blasting Carole King through her four story walk up apartment every morning.