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02731aam a22004458i 4500 001 9B6790B6344A11EFBF2596403FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240627010050 008 240626t20242024nyua # 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023043070 020 $a 1644213842 020 $a 9781644213841 035 $a (OCoLC)1405846213 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IEB $d JAS $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 082 00 $2 23/eng/20231023 084 $a BIOG $b DIF 100 1 $a DiFrancesco, Alex, $e author. $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjt3GCWDHr9Y4qx6FDxr9C 245 10 $a Breaking the curse $h [Book] : $b a memoir of trauma, healing, and Italian witchcraft / $c Alex DiFrancesco. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Seven Stories Press, $c [2024]. 300 $a 222 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 365 $a 01 $b 24.00 520 $a "In Breaking the Curse, Alex DiFrancesco takes their own crushing experiences of assault, addiction, and transphobic violence as the starting point for a journey to self-reclamation. Reeling in the aftermath of a rape that played out as painfully in public as in private, DiFrancesco begins to pursue spirituality in earnest, searching for an ancestral connection to magic as a form of protection and pathway to transformation. Propelled by a knowledge of the spiritual role of the transgender person in society, Alex winds through Cleveland and Brooklyn and Philly--from rehab and pagan AA meetings and friends' spare mattresses to tarot readers and books about Italian witchcraft to daily ritual, prayer, altar-making, and folk tradition. In so doing, they begin to not only piece together a way to heal but also call into existence a life that finally feels worth living. Breaking the Curse weaves spells, blasphemous novenas, and personal memories to imagine a new memoir form. Speaking about trauma does not always take its power away, DiFrancesco reminds us, but one can write their truth so that the hurt no longer fills the whole horizon"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a DiFrancesco, Alex. 650 0 $a Transgender people $v Biography. 650 0 $a Gender-nonconforming people $v Biography. 650 0 $a Rape victims. 650 0 $a Addicts $x Rehabilitation. 650 0 $a Mentally ill $x Rehabilitation. 650 7 $a Non-binary people. $2 homoit 650 7 $a LGBTQ+ people. $2 homoit 655 7 $a LGBTQ+ autobiographies. $2 homoit 655 7 $a Transgender autobiographies. $2 homoit 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702030125.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240627010126.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9B6790B6344A11EFBF2596403FECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search