The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Adrian, Kim
The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Adrian, Kim

The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir

Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to...
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SKU: 9781496201973
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Author: Kim Adrian
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Language: English
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The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Adrian, Kim

The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir

$51.63
The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir by Adrian, Kim

The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet: A Memoir

$51.63
Author: Kim Adrian
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter's struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness, addiction, and violence, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion with her mother, a suicidal incest survivor hooked on prescription drugs. Family memories were buried--even as they were formed--and truth was obscured by lies and fantasies.

In The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet Adrian tries to make peace with this troubled past by cataloguing memories, anecdotes, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary. But within this strategic reckoning of the past, the unruly present carves an unpredictable path as Adrian's aging mother plunges into ever-deeper realms of drug-fueled paranoia. Ultimately, the glossary's imposed order serves less to organize emotional chaos than to expose difficult but necessary truths, such as the fact that some problems simply can't be solved, and that loving someone doesn't necessarily mean saving them.


Author: Kim Adrian
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 10/01/2018
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.80w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9781496201973


Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 10/02/2018

About the Author
Kim Adrian is the author of Sock and the editor of The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms (Nebraska, 2018).

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