The Perfect Mango

In 1994, at the age of twenty-five, when the ?terrible brokenness that comes with sexual assault? was folded deep within her body and thoughts of suicide were always close by, Erin Manning wrote The Perfect Mango at an almost feverish pitch: nineteen chapters in nineteen days, a sort of self-rescue operation, where writing became a form of making (and feeling) life otherwise. Throughout those nineteen days, and although not able to fully articulate it to herself at the time, Manning wrote her way into a ?composition that asks how else life might be lived.? And in the rhythms of that…