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// Little Deaths all in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death
My latest book, Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, is coming soon from Jaded Ibis Press. This collection explores the tangled relationship between desire and mortality with raw honesty and deep vulnerability. Featuring evocative illustrations by Nicole Roberts, these essays navigate love, loss, and the body in all its transformations.
// Summary
“What do you think happens after we die?”
This has been Elizabeth Earley’s favorite conversation starter since the motorcycle accident that almost killed her.
In Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, Earley delves into memories of past lovers and offers vivid portraits of the Hospice patients she has worked with after recovering from her own near-fatal injuries.
Tracing the many connections — philosophical, scientific, ethical, and spiritual—between sex and death, these lyric essays ponder the afterlife, pain and pleasure, quantum entanglement and love, and the “strange and painful goodness of being alive.”
// Reviews and Publicity
Book review at lesbrary.com
// Praise
Lidia Yuknavitch
author of The Chronology of Water“This vulnerable, cerebral, emotional, and powerful work will take you to unexpected, magical, and utterly mysterious places.”
Emily Rapp Black
author of The Still Point of the Turning World"In Little Deaths All in a Row, Elizabeth Earley offers a powerful collection of essays exploring the intersection of desire, loss, and identity. With clear, lyrical prose, she weaves personal narrative and philosophical reflection to examine how intimacy, mortality, and transformation shape our lives. From early memories to life-changing accidents, from queer longing to the raw clarity of sobriety, these essays reveal the quiet moments that define our deepest encounters with love, grief, and becoming. This is essential reading—intimate, profound, and unforgettable."