Places I've Taken My Body

Name: Places I've Taken My Body
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SKU: 9780571361090
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By Molly McCully Brown

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Summary

Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown is a poignant memoir exploring the complexities of living with cerebral palsy. Brown delves into her experiences through a series of essays, unraveling themes of physical limitation, exploration, and the search for belonging. Her narrative is rich with introspection, vividly capturing the interconnectedness of mind and body in her journey across various landscapes.
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This book may appeal to you if you appreciate powerful narratives that explore the intersection of body, identity, and place. With deeply introspective and poetic prose, the author delves into personal experiences, examining how both physical and metaphorical journeys shape one's understanding of self and the world. Fans of contemplative memoirs will likely find it a profoundly moving read.

This metaphysical, intimate and visceral essay collection is stunning in its insight and suffused with optimism - Molly McCully Brown is the Rebecca Solnit of the body.

This metaphsyscial, intimate and visceral essay collection is stunning in its insight and suffused with optimism.

Molly McCully Brown is the Rebecca Solnit of the body.

Description

Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin, a life in poetry. As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the world's oldest anatomical theatre, Eugenics, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human: flawed, potent, feeling.

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Places I've Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown is celebrated for its remarkable essays that encourage readers to reflect on their internal and external experiences with grace and gratitude. The writing is praised for being sensitive, intelligent, and curious, offering a fresh perspective on navigating the world as a writer, traveller, and disabled individual.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571361090

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 294g

Pages: 224

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Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Health & Wellness Molly McCully Brown Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Molly McCully Brown is the author of The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017), which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the co-author of the poetry collection In The Field Between Us (Persea Books, 2020.) Her poems and essays have appeared in Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New York Times, the Paris Review, and elsewhere.