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02850aam a2200349 i 4500 001 5C08706C189311E9BAEBCC4797128E48 003 SILO 005 20190115010113 008 180823t20182018mau 000 0aeng c 010 $a 2018035153 020 $a 1623545285 020 $a 9781623545284 035 $a (OCoLC)1053163834 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d WZW $d CZA $d IGA $d DLC $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a RC372 $b .J66 2018 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Jones, Alisa Kennedy, $e author. 245 10 $a Gotham girl interrupted : $b my misadventures in motherhood, love, and epilepsy / $c Alisa Kennedy Jones. 246 30 $a My misadventures in motherhood, love, and epilepsy 264 1 $a Watertown, MA : $b Imagine Book, published by Charlesbridge, $c [2018] 300 $a xvi, 207 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "Smart stand-up comedy about the power of falling down, Gotham Girl Interrupted is loaded with brash truths and laugh-out-loud moments about the epileptic age and culture in which we all live. It's also a dispatch from the frontlines of neurodiversity. Above all, it's about the battle for becoming who you are supposed to be and finding your tribe--no matter how much flopping around on the ground and wetting yourself you have to do to get there. With wit and humility, Alisa Kennedy Jones chronicles her experiences after a diagnosis of ecstatic epilepsy (also suffered by Dostoevsky, Van Gogh, Da Vinci and Agatha Christie). Beginning with the first in a series of terrifying yet beautiful grand mal seizures, which she likens to "swallowing a bolt of lightning," each seizure leaves her with what Zen Buddhists sometimes refer to as a "beginner's mind"--a vast, open expanse of headspace, coupled with a creative euphoria. It's a state that renders you less encumbered by everything you've already learned, but also challenged by having to relearn some of the more basic aspects of daily life"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a "The big one" (2015) -- Everything in New York is a little bit broken -- The unbearable brightness of being -- Where the hell is my white light? -- Angry mothertrucker -- Oh, the pie-rony... -- D-day -- The cocktail hour(s) -- Why yes, I am a cyborg -- Dostoyevsky's addiction -- When mom is a werewolf -- Everything in New York is a little bit broken (part 2) -- Unspeakable -- Get your freak on -- I feel bad about my face -- Gotham girl, interrupted -- DNR -- A love letter from my brain -- The new rules of you -- Epilogue : on being a narwhal. 600 10 $a Jones, Alisa Kennedy. 650 0 $a Epileptics $v Biography. 650 0 $a Bloggers $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190115010518.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5C08706C189311E9BAEBCC4797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search