Alexis Paige

Not a Place on Any Map

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Not a Place on Any Map, winner of the 2016 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award, explores the switch-backing emotional terrain of traumas and triumphs, as well as the disparate landscapes where they unfold. In rich, evocative snapshots of Chicago, the desert Southwest, California, New England, and Texas, the book traces a peripatetic childhood shaped by loss and dislocation that tumbles into an early adulthood spent chasing excitement from coast to coast and abroad. After being raped in Italy on her first trip to Europe at twenty-five, the author goes adrift in despair from which only drugs and alcohol provide escape. The flash lyric essays in this debut collection pursue a lost sense of self and home after trauma, but as the author discovers, home is not a place marked neatly on any map. Reaching recovery takes years and detours through depression, blurred landscapes, rehab, and jail. Ultimately, the book maps not home at all, but a truer place, one made all the sweeter for having travelled so far to find it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vine Leaves Press
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 111mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 81g
• ISBN-13: 9781925417203
• ISBN-10: 1925417204
• Artikelnr.: 60632000

Autorenporträt

Alexis Paige is the author of the craft memoir, Work Hard, Not Smart, and the memoir in vignettes, Not a Place on Any Map, both from Vine Leaves Press. Winner of the New Millennium Nonfiction Prize, Paige has also received notable mentions in Best American Essays and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Assistant professor of English at Vermont Technical College, she holds an MA in poetry from San Francisco State University and an MFA in nonfiction from the Stonecoast Creative Writing Program of the University of Southern Maine. Paige lives in Vermont with her husband and their two unemployed dogs. Visit Alexis: alexispaigeauthor.com