Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record 37 of 105
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Farmer, Ashley Marie, author.

Title Dear Damage / Ashley Marie Farmer.

Publication Info. Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2022]
©2022

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  814 FARMER    Check Shelf
Description 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series Series in Kentucky literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 191).
Summary A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream. Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living room. It was a swift accident on an ordinary day: her chin hit the floor; her cervical spine shattered. She asked, "I'm paralyzed, aren't I?" Later, thinking to put her out of her misery, he kissed his sleeping wife of sixty-three years and shot her in the chest. He tried to shoot himself too, but the weapon broke apart in his hands. He was immediately arrested. This is the scene we are greeted with at the outset of Farmer's stunning collection of hybrid essays. One of its greatest features is the variety of voices, a kaleidoscopic approach that corrals in autobiography, audio transcripts, media, legal documents, Internet comments, short prose pieces, and more. The result is a moving, deeply satisfying, and eye-opening story. Ashley Marie Farmer is a profound writer who is clearly here to stay, her voice a true gift to our times.
Contents Mercy -- Jobs peak, 1985 -- Transcript: December 31, 2013 -- Aftermath -- Lucy, 1975 -- Selected internet comments, 2014-2015 -- Transcript: celebrities -- Contradiction, 2014 -- American dream job -- Slow circles -- Graceland, 1994 -- When the gun comes -- Transcript: hitchhikers -- Animal hours -- Transcript: shipyard -- Nevada / St. Tropez, 1987 -- Body composition -- Transcript: vinyl -- Minivan, 1994 -- Transcript: beaches -- Bill, 1925-2016 -- Seeing the dead alive -- Transcript: games -- Transcript: matrimony -- The book I would've written with no trouble in it -- Piano hour, 1995 -- End of the line -- Green girls, 1996 -- Transcript, riptides -- If -- Second person -- Titles of essays I didn't write -- Things you don't have to be taught, 1982 -- Transcript: hazards -- No one is waiting -- Letter to the public defender -- Motion to dismiss.
Subject Farmer, Ashley Marie -- Family.
Grandparents.
Paralytics -- Death.
Mariticide.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Grandparents. (OCoLC)fst00946374
Mariticide. (OCoLC)fst01010100
Genre/Form Essay (DNLM)D020474
Biography (DNLM)D019215
Autobiography (DNLM)D020493
essays. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026291
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
True crime stories. (OCoLC)fst01919985
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Essays.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
True crime stories.
Cover Title Dear Damage : essays
ISBN 9781946448903 (paperback)
1946448907 (paperback)
-->
Add a Review