Loss Adjustment
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āI have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and I canāt shake it off. I will commit the worst thing you can ever do to someone who loves you: killing yourself. The scary thing is, Iām okay with that.ā āVictoria McLeod, Singapore, March 30, 2014
Loss Adjustment is a motherās recount of her 17-year-old daughterās suicide.
In the wake of Victoria McLeodās passing, she left behind a remarkable journal in her laptop of the final four months of her life. Linda Collins, her mother, has woven these into her memoir, which is at once cohesive, yet fragmented, reflecting a survivor's state of mind after devastating loss.
Loss Adjustment involves the endless whys, the journey of Linda Collins and her husband in honouring Victoria, and the impossible question of what drove their daughter to this irretrievable act. A stunningly intimate portrait of loss and grief, Loss Adjustment is a breaking of silenceāa book whose face society cannot turn away from.
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Linda Collins is a copyeditor on the political desk ofĀ The Straits Times. She may be familiar to readers, having used to write a monthly contribution toĀ The Expat FilesĀ in theĀ Sunday TimesĀ from 2009ā2012. She has an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University, New ZealandĀ and her non-fiction and poetry have appeared inĀ Turbine,Ā Swamp Living,Ā The Fib Review,Ā The Cordite Poetry ReviewĀ andĀ The Freerange Journal. She was shortlisted for the Hachette Australia Trans-Tasman mentorship, longlisted for a NZ flash fiction award and received an Honourable Mention in aĀ Glimmer TrainĀ contest.Ā Loss AdjustmentĀ was written three years after her daughter had died, and is a work of creative non-fiction.
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āI have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and I canāt shake it off. I will commit the worst thing you can ever do to someone who loves you: killing yourself. The scary thing is, Iām okay with that.ā āVictoria McLeod, Singapore, March 30, 2014
Loss Adjustment is a motherās recount of her 17-year-old daughterās suicide.
In the wake of Victoria McLeodās passing, she left behind a remarkable journal in her laptop of the final four months of her life. Linda Collins, her mother, has woven these into her memoir, which is at once cohesive, yet fragmented, reflecting a survivor's state of mind after devastating loss.
Loss Adjustment involves the endless whys, the journey of Linda Collins and her husband in honouring Victoria, and the impossible question of what drove their daughter to this irretrievable act. A stunningly intimate portrait of loss and grief, Loss Adjustment is a breaking of silenceāa book whose face society cannot turn away from.
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Linda Collins is a copyeditor on the political desk ofĀ The Straits Times. She may be familiar to readers, having used to write a monthly contribution toĀ The Expat FilesĀ in theĀ Sunday TimesĀ from 2009ā2012. She has an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University, New ZealandĀ and her non-fiction and poetry have appeared inĀ Turbine,Ā Swamp Living,Ā The Fib Review,Ā The Cordite Poetry ReviewĀ andĀ The Freerange Journal. She was shortlisted for the Hachette Australia Trans-Tasman mentorship, longlisted for a NZ flash fiction award and received an Honourable Mention in aĀ Glimmer TrainĀ contest.Ā Loss AdjustmentĀ was written three years after her daughter had died, and is a work of creative non-fiction.
