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Mammal: A Memoir
Paperback
Biographies GeneralAddiction & Recovery
Publisher Price: $19.00
Publisher: Thiessen Press
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I was numb. I was a cloud. I wanted to feel like this forever.
At thirty years old, Jason Hardung is concussed from a bar fight and addicted to heroin, slumming in a house without electricity or running water. After witnessing the near suicide of a stranger, he makes a desperate call for help, hoping the forces that pushed him under can pull him back up.
This is Wyoming, where manhood is a pressure test described by the elements, and where tenderness is worse than weakness-it's a refusal to face the facts. But facts alone don't tell a story. Jason will spend the next twenty years figuring out what does.
Told with deadpan clarity and surprising humor, Mammal embodies the terrors and joys of a poet born into a blue-collar world.
ADVANCE PRAISE
A brilliant, bloody, big-hearted debut. Hardung has made me a lifelong fan.
- Mary Miller, author of Biloxi and Always Happy Hour
Almost unbearably human, honest, and genuine-all strong and unexpectedly sweet medicine for days like ours.
- Bonnie Nadzam, author of Lions and Lamb
A brilliant work of luminous love, pain, guts, burning hearts, a shadow lifting. Jason Hardung is an outstanding artist.
- Bud Smith, author of Teenager
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