The Light Room

From "one of our most formally ambitious writers" (Esquire), a moving account of art and caretaking in our precarious present.

In The Light Room, Zambreno offers a candid chronicle of life as a parent in a moment of profound uncertainty about public health, climate change, and the future we can expect for our children. Moving through the seasons, returning often to parks and green spaces, Zambreno captures moments of isolation and exhaustion alongside small and transcendent joys. In conversation with writers and artists ranging from Natalia Ginzburg to Joseph Cornell, Yūko Tsushima to Bernadette Mayer, Etel Adnan to David Wojnarowicz, The Light Room represents an impassioned appreciation of community and the commons, and an ecstatic engagement with the living world.

How are our memories, and our children's, affected by our profound disconnection? What does it mean to bring new life, and new work, into this world of precarity and crisis? In The Light Room, Zambreno offers a vision of how to live in ways that move away from disenchantment, and toward light and possibility.