Charlotte Northall: Practicing Dying Gosha Rubchinskiy and reject notions of the

and reject notions of the model minority

Swaby creates a series of ‘curatorial fabulations’

which she appropriated as scenarios

All monsters need feeding

Charlotte Northall: Practicing Dying Gosha Rubchinskiy and reject notions of thePilot Press, 2025, softcover, 355 pages, 13 x 19 cm Practicing Dying is a literary anti memoir documenting life in a Zen Buddhist monastery in rural France where the protagonist, a woman in her late twenties, attempts to overcome chronic drug addiction and mental illness. Broken and severely unwell, our protagonist arrives at the monastery from London: starving, drug addicted and disillusioned, having exhausted every conventional treatment route