AUGUST 11, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-41-2
ESSAY | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS | CHAPBOOK
A compelling exploration of how we reach toward the past—and what we discover in the gaps.
Questionnaire for My Grandfather is a quietly devastating essay that uses the structure of a questionnaire to interrogate what can—and cannot—be known about a man who shaped her family’s history. Each prompt becomes a doorway into memory, silence, and inherited mystery, revealing how the stories we tell about our elders are often built from fragments, omissions, and the emotional residue they leave behind.
The essay is a vessel for grief, curiosity, and intergenerational reckoning. It is a portrait assembled through negative space, where the unanswered questions speak as loudly as the answers might have.
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Kim Adrian is the author of The Twenty Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir and the editor of The Shell Game, Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, an anthology of hybrid essays (both University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She has published two books of lyric criticism: Dear Knausgaard and Sock, which is part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series. Her essays and short stories have appeared in AGNI, Tin House, O Magazine, and The Gettysburg Review, among others. She has taught creative writing at Brown University and Grub Street.
AUGUST 11, 2026
PAPERBACK | 4 x 6 | 48 PAGES | $15.00
978-1-954992-41-2
ESSAY | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS | CHAPBOOK
A compelling exploration of how we reach toward the past—and what we discover in the gaps.
Questionnaire for My Grandfather is a quietly devastating essay that uses the structure of a questionnaire to interrogate what can—and cannot—be known about a man who shaped her family’s history. Each prompt becomes a doorway into memory, silence, and inherited mystery, revealing how the stories we tell about our elders are often built from fragments, omissions, and the emotional residue they leave behind.
The essay is a vessel for grief, curiosity, and intergenerational reckoning. It is a portrait assembled through negative space, where the unanswered questions speak as loudly as the answers might have.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Kim Adrian is the author of The Twenty Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir and the editor of The Shell Game, Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, an anthology of hybrid essays (both University of Nebraska Press, 2018). She has published two books of lyric criticism: Dear Knausgaard and Sock, which is part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series. Her essays and short stories have appeared in AGNI, Tin House, O Magazine, and The Gettysburg Review, among others. She has taught creative writing at Brown University and Grub Street.
