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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Grand Central Publishing,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- I am not a clock
- Not the right kind of human
- Maybe I am not a person
- How to say what's wrong
- The system of the world
- Countdown to Karen Silkwood
- The underside of perfect
- My real family
- Not-Melissa
- Someone kicked the Earth
- If time were a dog
- Oh how we glowed
- Scapegoat
- Frankie Bird
- Jinx
- Yes, no, maybe, I don't know
- Listen carefully and say exactly what I say
- Normal-sized
- A beautiful, gorgeous life
- A stay-behind kid
- The bright side
- The drainpipe man
- A word never means only one thing
- A sense of rightness
- Hunky dory
- My life stained the world
- I'm the test to solve
- Everywhere I look, families
- Anarchy
- When I turn eighteen
- What if I give birth to myself?
- Who doesn't want to be in a play?
- One right way to be a person
- Homeless
- I am a pinball machine
- The system is the problem
- The dread, the relief
- Waiting to move on
- The body
- Waited my whole life to be normal
- Forever Mama
- Take care of the animals
- Certainty
- To be the same.
