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Don't you love memoirs? I know I do. There is something so intimate, as if someone is sitting across from you at a table, holding your hand, drawing you close, and telling you shattering secrets.
I absolutely loved Deborah A. Lott's Don't Go Crazy Without Me, the tragicomic coming of age
story of a girl who grew up under the seductive sway of her outrageously
eccentric father. He taught her how to have fun; he also taught her to fear
food poisoning, other children's infectious diseases, and the contaminating
propensities of the world at large. Alienated from her emotionally distant
mother, the girl bonded closely with her father and his worldview. When he plunged
from neurotic to full-blown psychotic, she nearly followed him. Sanity is not
always a choice, but for the sixteen-year-old, decisions had to be made and
lines drawn between reality and what her mother called her "overactive
imagination." She would have to give up beliefs carried by the infectious
agent of her father's love.
You know you want to read it right now!
Deborah A. Lott’s
memoirs, essays, and reportage have been published in the Rumpus, Salon, the
Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron
Review, the Los Angeles Times, StoryQuarterly, the Good Men Project, the
nervous breakdown, and many other places. Her family’s legacy of hypochondria
was featured on NPR’s This American Life. Her first book, In Session: the Bond
between Women and their Therapists, offered an unprecedented look at
psychotherapy from the perspective of clients interviewed by the author. Her
essays have been thrice named as “notables of the year” by Best American
Essays. She teaches creative writing and literature at Antioch University, Los
Angeles, where she serves as faculty advisor to Two Hawks Quarterly.com. She
lives with her husband, Gary Edelstone, in Los Angeles.
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