My Body Is a Book of Rules
by Elissa Washuta
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AS ELISSA WASHUTA MAKES THE TRANSITION from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her moodstabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour. Her crisis of American Indian identity bleeds into other areas of self-doubt; mental illness, sexual trauma, ethnic identity, and independence become intertwined. Sifting through the scraps of her past in seventeen formally inventive chapters, Washuta aligns the strictures of her Catholic school education with Cosmopolitan’s mandates for womanhood, views memories through the distorting lens of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and contrasts her bipolar highs and lows with those
of Britney Spears and Kurt Cobain. Built on the bones of fundamental identity questions as contorted by a distressed brain, My Body Is a Book of Rules pulls no punches in its selfdeprecating and ferocious look at human fallibility.
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Red Hen Press
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- Publisher Red Hen Press
- Publication Date August 2014
- ISBN/Identifier 9781597099691
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
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