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Contributor(s): Viren, Sarah (Author)
ISBN: 082635954X     ISBN-13: 9780826359544
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2018
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- Literary Collections | Essays
Dewey: 814.6
LCCN: 2017036425
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 176 pages
 
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Winner of the 2020 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Creative Non-fiction
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Memoir/Biography
Silver Winner for Essays in 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of ownership. What does it mean to believe that a hand, or a child, or a country, or a story belongs to you? What happens if you realize you're wrong? Mining her own life and those of others, Sarah Viren considers the contingencies of ownership alongside the realities of loss in this debut essay collection.


Contributor Bio(s): Viren, Sarah: - Sarah Viren is a writer, translator, and former newspaper reporter. A graduate of the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, she teaches at Arizona State University.