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Shadow Girl: A Memoir Of Attachment (Sightline Books)
Deb Abramson
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Description for Shadow Girl: A Memoir Of Attachment (Sightline Books)
Hardcover. In this psychological portrait of a family bound together by the uneasy permutations of love, Abramson relies not on sensationalist narrative but on a collection of the many small moments that glitter along the bumpy path of her life. Series: Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DNF; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
As the good little girl in an unhappy family who hid her darker troubles, Deb Abramson felt like she was living with another girl, a shadowy being who would neither leave nor make herself known. Crushed beneath the burden of her parents' rigid expectations yet driven to satisfy their needs, Abramson becomes bulimic, then severely depressed and suicidal, retreating more and more from the troubling outside world to the seeming haven of home, to a cycle of comfort from and competition with her depressed mother, to the frightening but alluring intimacy of her father's affections. Her struggle to extricate herself ... Read more
As the good little girl in an unhappy family who hid her darker troubles, Deb Abramson felt like she was living with another girl, a shadowy being who would neither leave nor make herself known. Crushed beneath the burden of her parents' rigid expectations yet driven to satisfy their needs, Abramson becomes bulimic, then severely depressed and suicidal, retreating more and more from the troubling outside world to the seeming haven of home, to a cycle of comfort from and competition with her depressed mother, to the frightening but alluring intimacy of her father's affections. Her struggle to extricate herself ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Series
Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction
Condition
New
Weight
426g
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9780877458234
SKU
V9780877458234
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About Deb Abramson
Deb Abramson received her bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1991 and her MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in 2000. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Sun, River Teeth, Under the Sun, and other publications. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she lives in Vermont. Shadow Girl is her first book.
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