All That Was Not Her which also includes Out of

which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength

The essays collected here

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All That Was Not Her which also includes Out ofWhile studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was Not Her Meyers presents an intimate ethnographic portrait of Beverly, stitching together small moments they shared scattered over months and years and, following her death, into the present. He meditates on the possibilities of writing about someone who is