Kim Adrian
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 287 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughters struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. 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...