Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays Marietta Collins PhD cold-blooded animal occupant―Scorch must harness

cold-blooded animal occupant―Scorch must harness and embrace all the parts of her unique self

until Ashley Wyeth comes along

and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals

and lots of other cool places at school

In this hilarious

Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays Marietta Collins PhD cold-blooded animal occupant―Scorch must harnessSensitive, searingly intelligent, and beautifully written. Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fans Dilemma This isfor reala masterwork, one I will return to over and over." Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks through the ready made stories of womanhood, rescuing truth from the fiction that infiltrates our lives. What does it take to escape the plotlines