Because: A Lyric Memoir

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ISBN-10: 0393357643
ISBN-13: 9780393357646
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 02/25/2020
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.40" W, 0.40" H

Because: A Lyric Memoir

byJoshua Mensch

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Price: $15.95

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A “disturbing, memorably and superbly handled book-length narrative poem” (Stephanie Burt), Because offers a compassionate and wrenching account of the author’s experience of childhood sexual abuse. It tells the story of Don, the charming, enigmatic director of a youth wilderness camp who befriends, and preys on, the young boys in his care. Unfolding through a series of jewel-like scenes, Because renders the shifting landscapes of childhood memory with a swift and convincing music, building a tale that is powerful, complex, and heartbreaking.

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Riveting, beautiful, and quietly devastating. Mensch is a gifted and unflinching poet, and he has one hell of a story to tell.–Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root and Elegy for a Broken Machine
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393357643
ISBN-13: 9780393357646
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 02/25/2020
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.40" W, 0.40" H
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