By turns painful and soaring, an ambitious memoir debut from one of Irish literature's rising stars, Se嫕 HewittALL DOWN DARKNESS WIDE is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's deep depression. As lives are made and unmade, this memoir asks what love can endure, and what it cannot. When Se嫕 meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story, but they soon come face-to-face with crisis--Elias sets out on the path to suicide, then turns back. Hewitt wrestles with the aftermath, confronting a profound rupture, endeavoring to mend and to understand it. It is a journey of lonely discovery followed by the light of community. Delving deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures before him, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of answers. From a 19th-century cemetery in Liverpool to a
