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ABOUT THE BOOK
How your expectations are shattered is as formative as the truth that replaces them.
In the essays of Disenchanted, Kaycie Hall catalogues the most acute shocks of disillusionment to reclaim the complexity and depth of her experiences — a stake for identity and sense-making that has found new urgency in motherhood. From boyfriends who hid heroin addictions to a buried rivalry in friendship, from miscarriage to antidepressant withdrawal, Kaycie is prompted to revisit her own poisoned fantasies. With hard-won wisdom and resolute vulnerability, she overcomes the fierce maternal urge to protect her son from the inevitable pains of life, because it is in these heartbreaks and blunders that one becomes a person.
PRAISE FOR DISENCHANTED
“Nobody gets disenchanted without first becoming enchanted—by a lover, a place, a language, or even one’s own child. Kaycie Hall writes about those states with an immersive sense of atmosphere, sly humor, and the voluptuous tristesse of an old soul buckled into a young person’s life. These essays are magic.
—Peter Trachtenberg, author of The Twilight of Bohemia and Another Insane Devotion
“What lurks under our enchantments with others? Kaycie Hall’s “Disenchanted” is an earthquake that cracks open the hidden realities we all try to avoid. In the early days of motherhood, Hall tends to her new son while facing her past relationships: friends, fetuses, romances, therapists, strangers, her own body. You won’t be able to look away from her reckonings, nor will you want to. May all our faultlines have this much discernment and levity as they start to rumble.”
—Lexi Kent-Monning, author of The Burden of Joy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kaycie Hall is a writer and translator from French. She lives in New York City with her son.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: September 22, 2026
Print Length: 122 pages
Dimensions: 5 × 8 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-50-9
ABOUT THE BOOK
How your expectations are shattered is as formative as the truth that replaces them.
In the essays of Disenchanted, Kaycie Hall catalogues the most acute shocks of disillusionment to reclaim the complexity and depth of her experiences — a stake for identity and sense-making that has found new urgency in motherhood. From boyfriends who hid heroin addictions to a buried rivalry in friendship, from miscarriage to antidepressant withdrawal, Kaycie is prompted to revisit her own poisoned fantasies. With hard-won wisdom and resolute vulnerability, she overcomes the fierce maternal urge to protect her son from the inevitable pains of life, because it is in these heartbreaks and blunders that one becomes a person.
PRAISE FOR DISENCHANTED
“Nobody gets disenchanted without first becoming enchanted—by a lover, a place, a language, or even one’s own child. Kaycie Hall writes about those states with an immersive sense of atmosphere, sly humor, and the voluptuous tristesse of an old soul buckled into a young person’s life. These essays are magic.
—Peter Trachtenberg, author of The Twilight of Bohemia and Another Insane Devotion
“What lurks under our enchantments with others? Kaycie Hall’s “Disenchanted” is an earthquake that cracks open the hidden realities we all try to avoid. In the early days of motherhood, Hall tends to her new son while facing her past relationships: friends, fetuses, romances, therapists, strangers, her own body. You won’t be able to look away from her reckonings, nor will you want to. May all our faultlines have this much discernment and levity as they start to rumble.”
—Lexi Kent-Monning, author of The Burden of Joy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kaycie Hall is a writer and translator from French. She lives in New York City with her son.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: September 22, 2026
Print Length: 122 pages
Dimensions: 5 × 8 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-50-9