“Unraveling Desires and Dread: A Deep Dive into Casey Mulligan Walsh’s ‘The Full Catastrophe'”
In Walsh’s deft hands, we’re placed squarely in the heart of the action: at the hospital, “on the other side of the window” from Eric, who’s lying “on a gurney in the center of the room” on the day when “he didn’t make it” — the day when “there was no time…a few hours ago. A lifetime ago.” But knowing that he doesn’t make it won’t make it any less heartbreaking when Walsh, who rewinds to tell her story chronologically — beginning in the mid ‘60s, when she’s orphaned, and filling in the details of her early life through flashbacks — works her way back to 1998: the year that appears in her mind “like a pixelated film, out of focus…[when] life blurs at the edges…[then] implode[s].”
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