PositiveRiver Teeth... captures the disorientation we feel when faced with this most ordinary, yet extraordinary, of shocks: the mortality of those dearest to us ... [Babine] resists the temptation to simplify her experience into inspiring lessons, the \'What cancer taught me\' tropes ... Babine’s essays reference Lutheran traditions and are imbued with a sense of the sacred. But in the same way Babine pushes against narrative structure, she also resists any particular spiritual framework or religious rhetoric. She wants to honor the spaces of unknowing.
