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A lost brother: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is, by Paul Stanbridge, reviewed

27 August 2022

9:00 AM

27 August 2022

9:00 AM

My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is Paul Stanbridge

Galley Beggar Press, pp.200, 9.99

Grief leads us down some strange roads. Few, though, can be as peculiar as those charted by Paul Stanbridge in his auto-fictional My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is. This singular and striking book follows a narrator (the extent to which this figure overlaps with Stanbridge is kept teasingly obscure) mourning the suicide of his brother, an isolated, eccentric mathematician.

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