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Shift
A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496238900
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In Shift, a personal inquiry into midlife lesbianism, Penny Guisinger examines sexual and romantic fluidity while wrestling with the ways past and present intermingle rather than staying in linear narratives.
Autumn Song
Essays on Absence
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496235800
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In Autumn Song Patrice Gopo invites readers into her personal stories of encountering absences, examining the details as one might turn around a prism, looking for the splinters of color each angle reveals.
It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496233158
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Chachi D. Hauser combines memoir, cultural criticism, and poetic modes to examine gender identity and her relationship to Walt Disney and the Disney company.
The Sound of Undoing
A Memoir in Essays
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496232878
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
A memoir in essays, The Sound of Undoing deconstructs the way sound has overwhelmingly shaped Paige Towers's life.
Under My Bed and Other Essays
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496230478
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of mothering daughters.
If This Were Fiction
A Love Story in Essays
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496232359
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction takes on gender-based violence, trauma, recovery, and motherhood, focusing an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Jill Christman's first fifty years.
Knocked Down
A High-Risk Memoir
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496230201
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids.
Let Me Count the Ways
A Memoir
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496226495
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Let Me Count the Ways is Tomás Q. Morín's memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability that eventually became a prison he would struggle for decades to escape.
Shadow Migration
Mapping a Life
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496226860
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Shadow Migration recounts Suzanne Ohlmann's boomerang travels away from her Nebraska home, until a haunted basement forces her to confront the truth of her biological past.
This Jade World
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496226013
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Named 2022 Book of the Year by the Chicago Writers Association
Through ancient temples and the lush greenery of Thailand, to the confines of a stranger's bed and a devouring couch, This Jade World chronicles a year of mishap, exploration and experimentation, self-discovery, and eventually healing.
What Becomes You
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496227843
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Essays by two writers-a trans man and his non-trans mother--document a transition from female to male, and life and family in different genders and generations. This edition is updated with discussion questions.
To Hell with It
Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante's Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496224606
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Dinty W. Moore asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing something that only makes us miserable?
Sky Songs
Meditations on Loving a Broken World
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496222640
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Sky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has passed through.
Anything Will Be Easy after This
A Western Identity Crisis
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496220219
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
This memoir recounts Bethany Maile's efforts, informed by a steady diet of "western" activities, to understand the ways in which the western myth is outdated yet persistent.
Borderline Citizen
Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496220417
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
What does it mean to be a citizen of the world in the twenty-first century? Robin Hemley wrestles with this question in Borderline Citizen as he takes the reader on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity.
How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496214096
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In these thematically linked pieces, Sue William Silverman explores the fear of death, and her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, realism, and speculation. Although defeating death is physically impossible, language, commemoration, and metaphor can offer slivers of transcendent immortality.
Shift
A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496238900
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Autumn Song
Essays on Absence
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496235800
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496233158
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
The Sound of Undoing
A Memoir in Essays
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496232878
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Under My Bed and Other Essays
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496230478
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
If This Were Fiction
A Love Story in Essays
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496232359
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Knocked Down
A High-Risk Memoir
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496230201
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Let Me Count the Ways
A Memoir
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496226495
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Shadow Migration
Mapping a Life
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496226860
Pub Date: March 2022
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Shadow Migration recounts Suzanne Ohlmann's boomerang travels away from her Nebraska home, until a haunted basement forces her to confront the truth of her biological past.
This Jade World
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496226013
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Through ancient temples and the lush greenery of Thailand, to the confines of a stranger's bed and a devouring couch, This Jade World chronicles a year of mishap, exploration and experimentation, self-discovery, and eventually healing.
What Becomes You
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496227843
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
To Hell with It
Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante's Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496224606
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Sky Songs
Meditations on Loving a Broken World
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496222640
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Anything Will Be Easy after This
A Western Identity Crisis
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496220219
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Borderline Citizen
Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496220417
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496214096
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press