Little panic dispatches from an anxious life

The ordinary world never made sense to Amanda, who grew up certain her friends and family would die or disappear if she quit watching them, compulsively treating every parting as a final good-bye. Shuttled between divorced parents, from a barefoot bohemian existence in Greenwich Village to a sanitiz...

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Main Author: Stern, Amanda (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:The ordinary world never made sense to Amanda, who grew up certain her friends and family would die or disappear if she quit watching them, compulsively treating every parting as a final good-bye. Shuttled between divorced parents, from a barefoot bohemian existence in Greenwich Village to a sanitized, stricter world uptown, this smart, sensitive little girl experienced life through the distorting lense of an undiagnosed panic disorder. Her darkly funny memoir is at once a love letter to 1970-80s New York City, a coming-of-age story of an anxious, unusually perceptive child, and a window into adult life and relationships lived on the razor's edge of panic.
Physical Description:viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page ix).
ISBN:9781538711927
1538711923
Author Notes:Amanda Stern is the author of the novel The Long Haul and the nine book Frankly Frannie middle grade series. Since 2003, she has helmed the Happy Ending Reading series and she's been a NYFA Fiction Fellow and held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times , New York Times Magazine , Salon , Post Road and St. Ann's Review .