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02240aam a2200313 i 4500 001 944A3AFE986A11E38EC2EBA8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140218010118 008 131023s2013 cau e 000 0aeng 010 $a 2013028331 020 $a 1619022338 020 $a 9781619022331 040 $d SKYRV $e rda $d SILO 050 00 $a CT275.N44276 082 00 $a B $a B 100 1 $a Nelson, Jessica Hendry. 245 10 $a If only you people could follow directions : $b a memoir / $c Jessica Hendry Nelson. 264 1 $a Berkeley, CA : $b Counterpoint, $c c2013. 300 $a 244 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three people: Nelson's mother Susan, her brother Eric, and Jessica herself. These three characters are deeply bound to one another, not just by the usual ties of blood and family, but also by a mother's drive to keep her children safe in the midst of chaos. The book begins with Nelson's childhood in the suburbs of Philadelphia and chronicles her father's addiction and death, her brother's battle with drugs and mental illness, her own efforts to find and maintain stability, and her mother's exquisite power, grief, and self-destruction in the face of such a complicated family dynamic. Each chapter in the book contends with a different relationship-friends, lovers, and strangers are all play-but at its heart the book is about family, the ties that bind and enrich and betray us, and how one young woman sought to survive and rise above her surroundings. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Nelson, Jessica Hendry. 600 10 $a Nelson, Jessica Hendry $x Family. 650 0 $a Families $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Children of drug addicts $v Biography. 650 0 $a Children of parents with mental disabilities $v Biography. 650 0 $a Interpersonal relations $z United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l GPPC641 $d 20150916040703.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=944A3AFE986A11E38EC2EBA8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search