By Julie Marie Wade
ISBN-10: 0912568216
ISBN-13: 9780912568218
ISBN-10: 1612940552
ISBN-13: 9781612940557
"For many years, every thing merely occurred to different people," Julie Wade writes. Or so she proposal. She documents her falls. The "stunned physique, the purloined speech" she reports after crashing to the floor from a swing. the feeling of slipping from the platform saddle atop a circus elephant, sliding "flat as a penny opposed to his wrinkled dermis, damn the bones of my ribs." The disgrace and uncertainty of being spilled from the safety of parental love. And, ultimately, triumphantly, the felix culpa, the lucky fall, of love.
Juxtaposed opposed to the fragmentary constitution of the memoir, this autumn includes either the power resource, the burning middle of the booklet, and its thematic vantage element. Falling in love is an explosion in Julie's brain in addition to her physique, an epiphany that remakes the map of her international, cutting the knot of her mom and dad' disgrace, unmasking the visceral truths of her physique. In love she is in movement, reimagining the prior, awesome out on highway journeys. all of sudden, she resides, grabbing, tasting, writing, her mouth packed with "honey and moonlight," her brain afire. And we're reminded convinced, this can be what love does, this can be the way it saves us.
Julie Wade has obtained the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize (2005), the Literal Latte Nonfiction Award (2006), the AWP Intro Journals Award for Nonfiction (2009), the yankee Literary overview Nonfiction Prize (2010), the humanities & Letters Nonfiction Prize (2010), the Thomas J. Hruska Nonfiction Prize (2011), the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir (2011), and 7 Pushcart Prize nominations.
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