Narrator (Schulz)

The narrator is the author of the book, Kathryn Schulz. In the memoir, she recounts her father's death and her relationship with C., situating her personal experiences within various lines of philosophical inquiry. She is a queer Jewish woman, the descendent of Polish immigrants who had lived in Palestine and Germany before ultimately settling in the United States. Schulz grew up in a middle class suburban home in Ohio with her parents. The title of the memoir refers to the narrator's experiences of losing her father and finding love with her wife, who is referred to by the abbreviation of her first name, 'C.'.

Schulz intertwines different historical and cultural understandings of loss with her personal experience of losing her father. Her relationship with her father, Isaac, is built on their mutual intellectual interests and shared curiosity about the world around them. The first chapter...