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01818aam a2200349 i 4500 001 591AF224F79311E8BA923B1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20181204010734 008 180301s2018 ne 000 0aeng 010 $a 2017057646 020 $a 1496201973 020 $a 9781496201973 035 $a (OCoLC)1027770054 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d DPL $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HQ755.86 A37 2018 100 1 $a Adrian, Kim, $e author. 245 14 $a The twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet : $b a memoir / $c Kim Adrian. 264 1 $a Lincoln : $b University of Nebraska Press, $c [2018] 300 $a ix, 287 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a American lives series 520 $a "Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness, addiction, and violence, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion with her mother, a suicidal incest survivor hooked on prescription drugs. Family memories were buried--even as they were formed--and truth was obscured by lies and fantasies. In [this book], Adrian tries to make peace with this troubled past by cataloguing memories, anecdotes, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary"--Back cover. 600 10 $a Adrian, Kim. 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Children of mentally ill mothers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Adult children of dysfunctional families $v Biography. 830 0 $a American lives. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240202024557.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=591AF224F79311E8BA923B1497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search