When the World Explodes: Essays by Scott, Amy Lee

When the World Explodes: Essays

How do you survive when your world explodes? By the time she was seven, Amy Lee Scott...
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Author: Amy Lee Scott
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When the World Explodes: Essays by Scott, Amy Lee

When the World Explodes: Essays

$51.63

When the World Explodes: Essays

$51.63
Author: Amy Lee Scott
Format: Paperback
Language: English
How do you survive when your world explodes? By the time she was seven, Amy Lee Scott had seen her world end twice: first as an infant, when adoption brought her from Korea to Ohio, and again when her adoptive mother died of cancer. Orphaned twice over, Scott confronts her personal chaos by investigating a litany of historic catastrophes and the disruptions that followed. Witnessing a Cabbage Patch Kid "born" at BabyLand General Hospital inspires a meditation on the history of Korean adoption and her own origins. Recalling her miscarriage as the streets of her Detroit neighborhood flooded, she asks what it means to mourn what would have been. And she remembers her mother's illness and death amid the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In this haunting debut, Scott gets to the heart of what it means to wrestle with the grief, rage, and anxiety seething in this tender world. Ferocious and true, When the World Explodes probes the space between personal and global calamities--from Krakatoa to the emotional perils of motherhood--to unearth the sharp ridge of hope that hides beneath the rubble.

Author: Amy Lee Scott
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 03/06/2025
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780814259177

About the Author
Amy Lee Scott received an MFA from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. Her writing can be found in Tin House Online, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, New Letters, Fourth Genre, Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

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