Santa Fe Writer's Project Lilly Dancyger's Negative Space is a double biography that tells Dancyger's story while simultaneously discovering her dead father's life. At once an exploration of grief and a literary séance in which the author speaks to her father through art and interviews with his friends and exes, this book is also a coming-of-age narrative where grief and anger become a path that leads to destruction, addiction and, ultimately, redemption. Dancyger remembers her childhood as happy. She grew up around positive people, parents who were creative and encouraged her to be th...