Not a Place on Any Map

Not a Place on Any Map, winner of the 2016 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award, explores the...
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SKU: 9781925417203
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Author: Alexis Paige
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Not a Place on Any Map by Paige, Alexis

Not a Place on Any Map

€26,82

Not a Place on Any Map

€26,82
Author: Alexis Paige
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Alexis Paige
Publisher: Vine Leaves Press
Published: 12/05/2016
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.37w x 0.18d
ISBN: 9781925417203

About the Author
Paige, Alexis: - Alexis Paige's work appears in multiple journals and anthologies, including Fourth Genre, The Pinch, The Rumpus, Pithead Chapel, and Brevity, where she is an Assistant Editor. Her essay, The Right to Remain, was named a notable in the 2016 Best American Essays anthology, was featured on Longform, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Winner of the 2013 New Millennium Writings Nonfiction Prize, Paige is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program. She writes from a converted farmhouse pantry in rural Vermont, where she lives with her husband, and their two dogs, Jazz and George. Visit Alexis online: alexispaigewrites.com

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