Dyscalculia A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup that ends with a stay in hospital. In the aftermath, her early childhood trauma, her mental health and her fraught relationship with mathematics all come back to the surface.

As a child she had dyscalculia, a disorder that makes learning math difficult. Felix uses it as a metaphor for the miscalculations she has made in love. She returns to parts of her history she had left behind, and in doing so takes herself back.

This is a memoir and a reflection on heartbreak, told in a poetic, raw and sharp contemporary voice. It looks at the breakup itself, at other risks she has taken in adult intimacy, and at the cracks in her upbringing, so that a pain spanning a lifetime comes into view.

The book asks who gets to claim a right to pain. It sets perception against reality and love against harm, and it treats heartbreak as political, in romantic relationships and in family ones. Expect an intimate, emotionally heavy read that moves between past and present.