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How to restore a timeline : on violence and memory / Peter Counter.

by Counter, Peter, 1987-

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616.85210092 C855h

Counter, Peter, 1987- -- Mental health.

Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Biography.

Canadian essays -- 21st century.

9781487011994 (trade pbk)

260 p. ; 22 cm.

Author lives in Dartmouth, N.S.

Includes bibliographical references.

"When a stranger shoots his dad on a Costa Rican pier, Peter Counter hauls his blood-drenched father to safety. Returning home, Counter discovers that his sense of time and memory is shattered, and in its place is a budding new mental illness: post-traumatic stress disorder. Counter begins to see violence everywhere. From the music of Cat Stevens to Jeb Bush’s Twitter feed. Walter Benjamin to Johnny Carson. Taskmaster. Video games. ASMR videos on YouTube. The world is steeped in gore. Again and again, Counter finds himself reliving his father’s shooting as his trauma is fragmented, recast, and distorted on a compulsive mental Tilt-A-Whirl. Formally inventive and incisively smart, How to Restore a Timeline revels in a fragile human condition battered by real conflict and hyper-curated media portrayals of death. Channelling Phoebe Bridgers, George Orwell, and Jordan Peele, these essays look us dead in the eye and ask: What kind of life can we piece together amid all the carnage?"--Publisher.

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