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Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays
 
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ISBN13:9781496241931
ISBN10:1496241932
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:226 pages
Size:229x152 mm
Weight:666 g
Language:English
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Thank You for Staying with Me

Essays
 
Series: American Lives;
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
 
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This collection of essays navigates the complications of home, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks.
 

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Urgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks. Using cosmology as a foil to discuss human issues, Bailey Gaylin Moore describes praying to the sky during moments of despondency, observing a solar eclipse while reflecting on what it means to be in the penumbra of society, and using galaxy identification to understand herself. During a collision of women’s rights, gun policy, and racial tension, Thank You for Staying with Me is a frank and intimate rumination on how national policy and social attitudes affect both the individual and the public sphere, especially in such a conservative part of the United States.
 

“Thank You for Staying with Me isn’t just a great book; it is a necessary one. Bailey Gaylin Moore’s writing is as powerful as writing the hard truth gets. She grew up in the Ozarks, a conservative part of this country, but what happened to her there could have happened anywhere—and does. I was bowled over by the immediacy of her prose and moved by the magical grace of her blessings. This is astonishing writing.”—Abigail Thomas, New York Times best-selling author of What Comes Next and How to Like It
Table of Contents:

Author’s Note


Step One: How to Be a Daughter

Mostly My Mother’s Daughter

Second Molars

Behind the Subway in Chesterfield Village

Puke Angels

Dark Center of the Universe

The End of the Rainbow

Choices

Step Two: How to Hold a Baby

Piece by Piece

ACTing

Wall of Water

Step Three: How to Be a Student

Galaxy Identification

Hegel Exercises

Count the Beats

Unbreaking an Egg

A Scattering of Our Own

Step Four: How to Untangle Knots

One Fish, Two Fish

Matted and Mangled

Life Is Too Short Not to Get Beef Jerky from a Van on the Side of a Highway

Dissonance

If You Build It, Baseball Dads Will Come

Step Five: How to Mourn a Nation

Mein(e) C—

Reclaiming Voices Like Needles in Haystacks

Twitter’s Hot Takes on Women in Politics

Gal-vanized

Step Six: How to Love Your Home

Two Degrees of Separation from Brad Pitt

When Natalie Walks into the Snow

Penumbra

D Explains How to Speak to a Police Officer

All Things Being Equal

Homecoming

Overkill

Praying to Lyra

Brave New World

Thank You for Staying with Me
 

Acknowledgments