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02534aam a22003738i 4500 001 8DF8E49E495811EE9228709642ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230902011803 008 230601s2023 oru b 000 0deng 010 $a 2023025050 020 $a 1959030124 020 $a 9781959030126 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 082 00 $a 302.5/45 $2 23/eng/20230605 100 1 $a Dixon, Athena, $d 1978- $e author. 245 14 $a The loneliness files : $b a memoir in essays / $c Athena Dixon. 250 $a First US edition. 263 $a 2310 264 1 $a Portland, Oregon : $b Tin House, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness. Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred fifty miles from her family and friends, Dixon begins watching mystery videos on YouTube, listening to true crime podcasts, and playing video game walk-throughs just to hear another human voice. She discovers the story of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman who died alone, her body remaining in front of a glowing television set for three years before the world finally noticed. Searching for connection, Dixon plumbs the depths of communal loneliness, asking essential questions of herself and all of us: How have her past decisions left her so alone? Are we, as humans, linked by a shared loneliness? How do we see the world and our place in it? And finally, how do we find our way back to each other? Searing and searching, The Loneliness Files is a groundbreaking memoir in essays that ultimately brings us together in its piercing, revelatory examination of how and why it is that we break apart"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dixon, Athena, $d 1978- 650 0 $a Social isolation. 650 0 $a Loneliness. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations. 941 $a 6 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314030208.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125011528.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240106010155.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240104012134.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240104010640.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231107011123.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8DF8E49E495811EE9228709642ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search