The end of Tennessee : a memoir / Rachel M. Hanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanson, Rachel M. (Rachel Michelle), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of family violence--Tennessee--Biography.

Victims of family violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2024]

Summary:

"A haunting memoir of childhood trauma, building a life, and wounds that never heal. "Not a year before I ran away from home at seventeen, I stepped out of the house at dusk, still able to see shrub oaks thinned out for winter, fame flower, too, and dun clay so wet the smell of it seemed settled in my skin." So begins Rachel M. Hanson's debut memoir about growing up impoverished, uneducated, and surrounded by violence. In lyrical, fragmented prose, she lays bare the impossible choice between self-preservation and her love for five younger siblings for whom she had become a second mother. As the years pass, Hanson struggles with guilt for leaving her siblings as she slowly realizes she could not save them. The End of Tennessee is a testament to a sister's love--to resilience and determination--a book for anyone who has left one life to create another"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

On Seventeen in Appalachia

Talking in Tongues

Older Brothers

Haunted

Dirty Water

Histories

Babies

After Birth

Education

End of Ballet

Prism

Father

End of Prayer

End of Tennessee

Dislocations

Breaking

Lies

Ways of Leaving

Sunnyside

Writing You.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hanson, Rachel M. The End of Tennessee

ISBN:

9781643364940

OCLC:

1428214559