Senga Is Dead

HER FILE SAYS DECEASED.HER STORY WAS NEVER ENTERED.Senga Dolan was somebody's daughter. A child who loved the pedal boats in Springburn Park. A girl who escaped through music. A young woman who found in heroin the warmth the world had withheld.By twenty-one, the city knew her as an addict, a thief and a collection of missed appointments. Then it closed her file.Blending documentary fragments with intimate fiction, Senga Is Dead restores the person behind the paperwork—and confronts the terrible distance between caring for someone and being able to save them.