Publisher's Synopsis
How to Adjust to the Dark is a multi-genre novella about coming to terms with trauma and depression through every tool available, ranging from poetry to psychiatric medicine to tarot reading. Van Laer illustrates her break from poetry, her fall into increasingly destructive relationships, and the spiral of an artist without their art. Built around poems, the book reflects on the identities we create for ourselves through writing—and the ways in which those identities confine and fail us.
