The Ancestry of Objects
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
A young woman contemplates the end of her life as she's known it as tragedy after tragedy accumulates around her, threaded with her relationship to desire, consent, and control.
Tatiana Ryckman explores the complexities of young adulthood and the echoes of the past in her prose. Her writing delves into unique styles and the depth of human experience. Readers can expect insightful reflections on contemporary feelings and the search for identity.


A young woman contemplates the end of her life as she's known it as tragedy after tragedy accumulates around her, threaded with her relationship to desire, consent, and control.
A novella describing "the narcissism inherent in infatuation, exposing the awkward, disorienting state of passion, and articulating the comic nature that permeates the melodrama of our existence ... chronicl[ing] the struggles of a long-distance relationship, forming a series of unsent musings to the beloved"--