Lisa Fishman’s Write Back Now! is a quiet wonder, documenting all the invisible ways that place transforms us. Magnetic, poignant, and constantly inventive, each new page presents a sublime discovery that deftly interrogates the relationship between memory, our ever-changing inner selves, and the shifting states of the natural world.

Write Back Now! is an experiment in how writing can coalesce time, space, and forgotten feelings that echo in the body into one. This minimalist, self-reflective prose, written with a gentle touch of poetry, is the kind of writing that makes one want to write.

In five short chapters, Fishman leaps across time and geography, friendships and age, domestic life and livelihoods, girlhood and womanhood, death and birth—from fishing communities to farming communities, linking and separating two countries. The episodes are brief and unadorned, but there is lyricism in the gaps between them; the ‘negative space’ is eloquent. This collection of remembrances is both detailed and generalized, and at the end you feel you have traversed great expanses of time and place. This is a text for our time.