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Overview* In the US, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner-which equates to more than 10 million women and men per year. Children who witness domestic violence in their homes are 15 times more likely than other children to be victims of child abuse themselves. * Transient tics are relatively common, affecting as many as 24% of school-age children. * About half of YA purchases are by adults. With 35 million baby boomer women in the US, the potential crossover audience for Shrug is considerable. AUDIENCE: * Young adults (ages 12 to 18) * Women who lived through the 1960s (baby boomers) * Those interested in stories of family dysfunction, domestic violence, and recovery * Those with tic disorders * Classical music fans and vinyl fans Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elise SchillerPublisher: She Writes Press Imprint: She Writes Press Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9781631526381ISBN 10: 1631526383 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 13 August 2019 Recommended Age: From 13 to 17 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews2020 IPPY Awards Gold Winner in Young Adult Fiction 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite in Young Adult Fiction 2019 Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner, Young Adult Fiction--Historical 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Winner in Fiction 2019 Best Book Award Finalist in Fiction (Young Adult) 2019 Sarton Women's Book Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction As persuasive as the memoirs Educated and The Glass Castle, Shrug yanks at the heartstrings... I felt white-knuckled empathy for the tough and fragile Martha. --Carolyn McVickar Edwards, author of Return of the Light and The Storyteller's Goddess A book that slowly creeps up on you before grabbing you by the throat and demanding that you pay attention. I highly recommend this read. --Grant Leishman, Readers' Favorite Rich with colorful characters, vivid descriptions and subtle insights... Moss's graceful prose brings you along on this poignant coming-of-age journey with pathos and humor. --Rifka Kreiter, author of Home Free: Adventures of a Child of the Sixties Moss takes achingly relatable teenage angst and subjects it to parents so off-the-rails that the explosive Berkley antics around the Vietnam War 'outside' pale next to the domestic horror of the war at home--and then sets it to music. A book with a voice for generations, from Boomers to their grandchildren. --Rita Dragonette, author of The Fourteenth of September Gripping from beginning to end, this beautifully written work is impossible to put down. --The BookLife Prize As persuasive as the memoirs Educated and The Glass Castle, Shrug yanks at the heartstrings... I felt white-knuckled empathy for the tough and fragile Martha. --Carolyn McVickar Edwards, author of Return of the Light and The Storyteller's Goddess A book that slowly creeps up on you before grabbing you by the throat and demanding that you pay attention. I highly recommend this read. --Grant Leishman, Readers' Favorite Rich with colorful characters, vivid descriptions and subtle insights... Moss's graceful prose brings you along on this poignant coming-of-age journey with pathos and humor. --Rifka Kreiter, author of Home Free: Adventures of a Child of the Sixties Moss takes achingly relatable teenage angst and subjects it to parents so off-the-rails that the explosive Berkley antics around the Vietnam War 'outside' pale next to the domestic horror of the war at home--and then sets it to music. A book with a voice for generations, from Boomers to their grandchildren. --Rita Dragonette, author of The Fourteenth of September Gripping from beginning to end, this beautifully written work is impossible to put down. --The BookLife Prize 2020 IPPY Awards Gold Winner in Young Adult Fiction 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite in Young Adult Fiction 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Regional Fiction: West 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Young Adult Fiction 2019 Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner, Young Adult Fiction--Historical 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Winner in Fiction 2019 Best Book Award Finalist in Fiction (Young Adult) 2019 Sarton Women's Book Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction Gripping from beginning to end, this beautifully written work is impossible to put down. --The BookLife Prize A complex and compelling coming-of-age story . . . highly recommended. --The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Read this book. It will knock your socks off. --Laurin Porter, author of The Banished Prince: Time, Memory, and Ritual in the Late Plays of Eugene O'Neill Author InformationLisa Braver Moss is the author of the novels The Measure of His Grief (Notim Press, 2010) and the award-winning Shrug (She Writes Press, 2019). Her essays have appeared in the Huffington Post, Tikkun, Parents, Lilith, and many other publications. Lisa's nonfiction book credits include Celebrating Family: Our Lifelong Bonds with Parents and Siblings (Wildcat Canyon Press, 1999) and, as coauthor, The Mother's Companion: A Comforting Guide to the Early Years of Motherhood (Council Oak Books, 2001). She is also coauthor, with Rebecca Wald, of Celebrating Brit Shalom (Notim Press, 2015), the first-ever book of ceremonies and music for Jewish families seeking alternatives to circumcision. Born in Berkeley, California, Lisa still lives in the area with her husband, with whom she has two grown sons. 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