The sloth -- Going back to Plum Island -- The surprise baby -- The river cave -- Bird girls -- Life's not a paragraph -- Family portrait : an essay in third person -- The eleven-minute crib nap -- The googly eye -- A stone pear -- Leading the children out of town -- Slaughterhouse Island -- The avocado -- The baby and the alligator -- Aiskhyne -- The lucky ones -- Naked underneath our clothes -- Spinning : against the rules of angels.
Summary:
"Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, "If This Were Fiction" engages topical issues such as violence against women, trauma, motherhood, and recovery, focusing a feminist lens on Jill Christman's first fifty years and sending out a message of love, power, and hope"-- Provided by publisher.
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