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A History of Scars: A Memoir

A History of Scars: A Memoir

Lee, Laura

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 1982127287
ISBN13: 9781982127282
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Mar 2 2021
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Stonewall Book Award
From a writer whose work has been called breathtaking and dazzling by Roxane Gay, this moving, illuminating, and multifaceted memoir explores, in a series of essays, the emotional scars we carry when dealing with mental and physical illnesses--reminiscent of The Collected Schizophrenias and An Unquiet Mind. In this stunning debut, Laura Lee weaves unforgettable and eye-opening essays on a variety of taboo topics. In History of Scars and Aluminum's Erosions, Laura dives head-first into heavier themes revolving around intimacy, sexuality, trauma, mental illness, and the passage of time. In Poetry of the World, Laura shifts and addresses the grief she feels by being geographically distant from her mother whom, after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, is relocated to a nursing home in Korea. Through the vivid imagery of mountain climbing, cooking, studying writing, and growing up Korean American, Lee explores the legacy of trauma on a young queer child of immigrants as she reconciles the disparate pieces of existence that make her whole. By tapping into her own personal, emotional, and psychological struggles in these powerful and relatable essays, Lee encourages all of us to not be afraid to face our own hardships and inner truths.

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