There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things

There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things is a memoir written in the aftermath of a father's death exploring how his love absence deliriums and ultimately his mortality inform the trajectory of his daughter's life. Follow Valley Haggard through her childhood with artists and alcoholics onto a dude ranch in Colorado a farm in Arkansas a cruise ship in Alaska and finally back to her childhood home in Richmond Virginia. In the course of her vibrant and ever-evolving life Valley navigates unhealthy relationships addiction and recovery child loss and birth marriage and the process of healing old wounds in order to create a family of her own. Written in the style of flash non-fiction the narrative arcs towards connection and meaning in a world torn apart and then stitched back together even though sometimes there is still no accounting for the strangeness of things.