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What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites us to consider this question with depth, heart, and ferocity, investigating the gaps that technology cannot fill and confronting a lifetime of loneliness. Living alone as a middle-aged woman without children or pets and working forty hours a week from home, more than three hundred fifty miles from her family and friends, Dixon begins watching mystery videos on YouTube, listening to true crime podcasts, and playing video game walk-throughs just to hear another human voice. She discovers the story of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman who died alone, her body remaining in front of a glowing television set for three years before the world finally noticed. Searching for connection, Dixon plumbs the depths of communal loneliness, asking essential questions of herself and all of us: How have her past decisions left her so alone? Are we, as humans, linked by a shared loneliness? How do we see the world and our place in it? And finally, how do we find our way back to each other? Searing and searching, The Loneliness Files is a groundbreaking memoir in essays that ultimately brings us together in its piercing, revelatory examination of how and why it is that we break apart.

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Athena Dixon is a poet, essayist, and editor. Her work is included in the anthology The BreakBeat Poets Vol.2: Black Girl Magic and her craft work appears in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. Athena is an alumna of VONA, Callaloo, and Tin House and has received a prose fellowship from The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, Athena now resides in Philadelphia. Emana Rachelle is a New York City-based stage, screen, and voice-over actress with a voice described as rich velvet. Emana is a proud member of both SAG-AFTRA and AEA. She has an MFA from West Virginia University, where she served as a W. E. B. DuBois Graduate Fellow. Additionally, she holds a BFA from NYU Tisch and has trained at The British American Dramatic Academy. Emana has performed Off-Broadway, and her television credits include HBO's Insecure, Amazon Prime's #LoveMyRoomie, and NBC's 30 ROCK. Her upcoming credits include The Good Fight (Paramount) and the highly anticipated film The Color Purple Musical, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey. Emana has a love of all things fiction, especially mysteries (love, love!). She's narrated YA, fantasy, science fiction, MOCAP, and romance. In particular, her more than ten years of experience as a standup comedian have given Emana a solid funny bone, and made her a sucker for romantic comedies. She possesses the unique skills to perform multiple voices and dialects. She falls in love with building a character's world, the special traits that make them tick, and their unique points of view. She can't wait to narrate your next book!

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