Every year a new volume of The Crooked Little Pieces comes out. Every year author Sophia Lambton introduces it with an in-depth essay focussed on a theme: loss, addictive love, history's resonance and distance or another universal plight.

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If you're looking for background info on CLP, would like a taster before jumping in or want to find out about comparable works, check out her introductory essays:

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On Fiction: An Introduction to The Crooked Little Pieces or The Sunken Island of the Soul 
 

Twin Cells vs. The Cries of the Lone Wolf, or The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 2
 

High on the Sex and Death Continuum: Love’s Tightrope of a Lethal Cocktail and The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 3
 

The Guile of Unlasting Nostalgia: An Introduction to The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 4