Begin by Telling: Volume 11 Contributor(s): Remy, Meg (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771666633 ISBN-13: 9781771666633 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Literary Collections | Essays |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.6" W x 8.1" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Never forget / As though channel surfing, we catch glimpses of Desert Storm, the Oklahoma City Bombing, random street violence, the petrochemical industry, small town Deadheads, a toilet with uterus lining in it, the county STD clinic, and missionaries at the front door. Each is shared through language of the body; the sensation of experiencing many of the defining events and moments of a country. Immersive and utterly compelling, the threads in Begin by Telling nimbly interweave with probing quotes and statistics, demonstrating the importance of personal storytelling, radical empathy, and the necessity of reflecting on society and one's self within that construct. Praise for Begin By Telling: Begin By Telling explores the horrors and absurdity of being a girl in the mediated warscape of America. With sharp emotional intelligence, Remy reveals a cultural systemic rot that begins with family and fractals out into school, life, the media, the government, and history. Both hallucinogenic and lucid, this work is a radical interrogation of trauma, and a literary salve for the feminist psyche. --Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave and Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions and Criticisms Powerful and distinctive, Begin by Telling ripped through me with the velocity and weight of a freight train; it's roar drowning out the world around me. A beautiful and brutal work, that forces the reader forward, but is crafted to leave space to catch your breath. --Tegan Quin from Tegan and Sara and co-author of High School |