LIFE IS ABOUT LOSING EVERYTHING

Covering a seven-year period, Crosbie blends fiction with memoir and takes us on a heartbreaking journey through a very tumultuous time in her life. Daring, disturbing, hilarious, and heartfelt all at once, Crosbie's writing pushes boundaries and ultimately produces an unforgettable work of original literary quality.

Life is About Losing Everything speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs. Crosbie explores the fantasy of an affair with Michael Jackson and cohabitation with Billy Joel. She contemplates 80s big-hair bands, critical theory and fine art, the battle against aging, addiction and depression and even delves into to what it's like to make love to a zombie and a robot.

Writing in the tradition of Anne Sexton, Sloane Crosley and Miranda July. Crosbie's style is tragically confessional, edgy and funny.

"It's almost terrifying how deep this book goes, and how quickly it gets there. I've sometimes wondered if I've lost my ability to feel the world a certain way, and this book reminded me that I haven't."
- Douglas Coupland on Life is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie

Lynn Crosbie is the acclaimed author of four collections of poetry and two novels, and the editor of the anthologies Click and The Girl Wants To. Her weekly column, "Pop Rocks," appears across Canada's leading newspaper, the Globe and Mail. Lynn Crosbie writes and teaches in Toronto.