The Mourner’s Bestiary, the debut memoir of Chicago-based author and musician Eiren Caffall, weaves a complex tapestry. It details Caffall’s harrowing experience with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), environmental collapse in the Gulf of Maine and Long Island Sound (landscapes from her childhood), and parenting as a single mom of a child who may or may […] The post Eiren Caffall on crossing artificial barriers appeared first on Chicago Reader.