Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession by Trahan, Marcia
Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession by Trahan, Marcia

Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession

One of BuzzFeed's 15 Books from Smaller Presses You Won't Be Able to Put Down. One of...
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Author: Marcia Trahan
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Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession by Trahan, Marcia

Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession

$40.78
Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession by Trahan, Marcia

Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession

$40.78
Author: Marcia Trahan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

One of BuzzFeed's 15 Books from Smaller Presses You Won't Be Able to Put Down. One of Book Riot's 10 Best New Indie Press Books of Summer 2020. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. When Marcia Trahan began watching true crime television, she did so in secret. She felt ashamed by her fascination with these violent stories, and how hungrily she consumed one gruesome tale after another. Only years later did she start to connect the dots between her true crime obsession and the series of invasive medical procedures that left her feeling victimized and violated. Can the body tell the difference between an attacker's knife and a surgeon's? This is the central question in MERCY, a question that leads Trahan to re-examine her body's reaction to lifesaving medical treatment, the childhood experiences that first made her feel unsafe in her own skin, and the true crime genre's most common tropes. Part searingly honest memoir, part incisive cultural criticism, MERCY explores the appeal of true crime and the way so many of us live our whole lives bracing for an attack.



Author: Marcia Trahan
Publisher: Barrelhouse Inc.
Published: 11/18/2019
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780988994577

About the Author
Trahan, Marcia: - Marcia Trahan is a native Vermonter, a freelance book editor, and a semiprofessional patient. She earned a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Vermont and a master of fine arts in writing and literature from Bennington College. Marcia's essays and poetry have appeared in Fourth Genre, apt, Clare, Anderbo, Blood Orange Review, Connotation Press, Kansas City Voices, and the LaChance Publishing anthology Women Reinvented: True Stories of Empowerment and Change. Bloodletting, a post-cancer narrative, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has twice received honorable mention in the New Millennium Writing Awards.

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