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Author:

Stern, Amanda, author.

Title:

Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life / Amanda Stern.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Grand Central Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Stern, Amanda--Mental health.
Authors, American--21st century--Biography.
Panic disorders--Patients--Biography.
New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
Autobiographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page ix).

Contents:

I am not a clock -- Not the right kind of human -- Maybe I am not a person -- How to say what's wrong -- The system of the world -- Countdown to Karen Silkwood -- The underside of perfect -- My real family -- Not-Melissa -- Someone kicked the Earth -- If time were a dog -- Oh how we glowed -- Scapegoat -- Frankie Bird -- Jinx -- Yes, no, maybe, I don't know -- Listen carefully and say exactly what I say -- Normal-sized -- A beautiful, gorgeous life -- A stay-behind kid -- The bright side -- The drainpipe man -- A word never means only one thing -- A sense of rightness -- Hunky dory -- My life stained the world -- I'm the test to solve -- Everywhere I look, families -- Anarchy -- When I turn eighteen -- What if I give birth to myself? -- Who doesn't want to be in a play? -- One right way to be a person -- Homeless -- I am a pinball machine -- The system is the problem -- The dread, the relief -- Waiting to move on -- The body -- Waited my whole life to be normal -- Forever Mama -- Take care of the animals -- Certainty -- To be the same.

Summary:

The author presents a relatable, darkly comic memoir about her lifelong struggles with anxiety, tracing her upbringing by a bohemian mother and sanitized, affluent father in a transforming New York City.

ISBN:

1538711923
9781538711927

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1038786551

LCCN:

bl2018055519

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