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    612-822-4611

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Lessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger

Lessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger

Lavender, Bee

Paperback

Series: Punk Planet Books

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ISBN10: 1888451793
ISBN13: 9781888451795
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Apr 1 2005
Pages: 225
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.32 Depth: 7.56
Language: English

[One of] the reigning mother superiors of the crowd [is] Bee Lavender. --Time Magazine

Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can't believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Lessons in Taxidermy is Lavender's fierce and expressive search for truth and an elusive sense of safety. This autobiographical tale is stark and resolved, but strangely euphoric, tying together moments and memories into a frantic, delicate, and often transcendently funny account of anguish and confusion, pain and poverty, isolation and illusion. While staying conscious of the particulars of her circumstances, Lavender frames her life in the context of history, traveling, landscape, and freak show culture. Lessons in Taxidermy is apocryphal, troubling, cathartic, and important.

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