The Angle of Flickering Light

The Angle of Flickering Light is a memoir about parental deception and infidelity; it explores what it means for a girl to run recklessly into womanhood, clinging to any version of love, making temporary homes for herself again and again. As a girl, Gina Troisi struggles with eating disorders and addiction, and when she reaches young adulthood, just as she begins to glimpse a better life for herself, her grandfather, who has been a surrogate father to her, becomes terminally ill. She falls in love with John, a stranger who is utterly familiar, but who is addicted to heroin, and moves from New Hampshire to California, crossing the country in an attempt to alleviate her self-destructive tendencies, but she finds herself pulled back to New Hampshire, to John, a man with whom, despite his struggle, she cannot not deny the sense of home she feels. But will she ever find home within herself?