aloneness

A “sense of aloneness — of loneliness, really — is the theme that runs through Hecht’s strongest writing and through Yezzi’s biography. Yezzi is alert to it.”

Instead, he uses the concept of the narrative to explore these themes of grief and loss and what he calls “aloneness,” something that was magnified for many during the pandemic.

Despite being in the company of countless others facing similar challenges in our generation, we have an overwhelming sense of aloneness.

On analyzing the result from the entire participant pool, there was only a 3% overlap between aloneness and loneliness.

"I think of all of this as being captured in the umbrella phrase 'aloneness and sameness.'"