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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kristine Langley MahlerPublisher: West Virginia University Press Imprint: West Virginia University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.00cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9781952271656ISBN 10: 1952271657 Pages: 211 Publication Date: 01 October 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAn exceptional example of both place-based and experimental writing. My own adolescence and all the times I felt like an outsider sprang to life reading these pages. Erica Trabold, author of Five Plots An exquisite excavation of childhood and adolescence, Curing Season recounts Kristine Langley Mahler's long-ago attempts at fitting in after moving to her new town: from wanting to carry the right shopping bag in the mall to forming an alliance with one girl against others to mailing 'histrionic letters of homesickness' to friends at her old school. In wise, lyrical, and formally inventive essays, Mahler vividly illustrates the heartaches of trying to belong in a place--even after leaving it. Jeannie Vanasco, author of Things We Didn't Talk about When I Was a Girl Kristine Langley Mahler's Curing Season is a lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn't offer you a space. Displaced, coming of age, estranged from tradition, feeling out of place, this is a voice that teaches us how to live in the aftermath: you may not recognize life as you are living it, mementos may not reveal themselves until after the fact, what we miss and mourn may be what harmed us in the past. In imaginative forms and gripping prose, Mahler leads us to the entombed interiors of loss and shows us how to rewrite our stories so that we truly fit in. Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life Author InformationKristine Langley Mahler is a memoirist experimenting with the truth who lives near Omaha, Nebraska. Her work has been supported by the Nebraska Arts Council and is published in DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Brevity, Speculative Nonfiction, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is the director of Split/Lip Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |