Remnants of the Disappeared is a memoir that has been evolving since 2005. Begun as a series of lyric essays, it has now taken the form of a fragmented full-length narrative that weaves personal history with myth, narrative nonfiction, and fictional projections. It is in many ways a trauma narrative, structured to follow the threads of memory as they actually occur, especially in persons with PTSD. Many of the passages read as prose poems, relying on sensory details to tell the story. Even though told in fragments, the narrator believes that it is in the smaller parts that the whole is...