There are essays about Berlin, where Wright was a foreign exchange student, and later revisited as a young writer. We follow Wright’s move to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, where Wright had gone to intern at an English language newspaper. The book moves through a series of interlinked spaces-some internal and some external, though not all chronological. While it’s true to say that Wright’s book is a series of essays focused around the author’s eating disorder and the road she took from illness to wellness, it’s also a beautifully written series of tales about creativity, about the nature of mental and physical health, about being a woman, about travel, about love, about writing, about reading, and about self-awareness. That one essay had me well and truly hooked and I read the entirety of Small Acts of Disappearance on the trip there and back (after breakfast and before lunch).
I was travelling by train and this one was so neat and portable that I just grabbed it.
I have quite a few other books on the go at the moment, so when Small Acts of Disappearance arrived in my mailbox, I thought I’d just maybe read one essay to check it out before returning to my current book.
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