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Terms & Conditions: A Memoir
Paperback
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Publisher Price: $14.00
Publisher: Stanchion LLC
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
**The terms & conditions you grew up with don't have to determine the rest of your life**
When a 46-year-old hypervigilant anthropologist finds out she has a genetic mutation that means she is at risk of developing the same cancer that killed her father at 48, she must put her grief and anxiety over his death and her emotionally precarious childhood to rest or risk losing her sanity, her husband, and her carefully-ordered life.
Terms & Conditions is an experimental memoir in both form and content. This is a memoir in glossary structure, allowing for analytical distance to the emotional impact of Goldmacher's many artifacts and memories, giving the author a new perspective on what they carry from the past to her desired future. The book cleverly alternates between remembered and speculated past, and real present; experimental forms such as blackout/erasure, artifacts, diagrams, and hermit crabs allow deep exploration of themes of anxiety, death, love, and adulthood.
T&C is for fans of compressed prose like Beth Ann Fennelly's Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs and essay poetry like Claudia Rankine's Citizen, this book will appeal to those who suffer from anxiety produced by uncertainty, who long to recognize and let go of what no longer serves them; in particular, this book appeals to fatherless daughters, anxiety sufferers, and women in middle age and beyond who are learning how embrace the uncertainty of the second half of life.
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