The electric woman a memoir in death-defying acts
In the midst of losing her mother to strokes, Fontaine found herself out on the road with the World of Wonders, America's last traveling sideshow. Transformed into an escape artist, a snake charmer, and a high-voltage Electra, she witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and...
| Main Author: | Fontaine, Tessa (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The trick is there is no trick
- The architecture of a wave
- The snake charmer
- Human history
- Open the gates
- The dragon
- Snickers T. Clown
- Cake
- Hair ingredients
- Let's us have fun
- The moon is apple pie
- The softest skin of anyone in the entire world
- Daughters
- Mud
- And the low sky opens
- The departure
- Emergency
- Fresh meat
- The Titanic was child's play
- Monsters
- Premium footlong corn dogs
- Where your name is writ
- Cash money
- Wildewoman
- The sword swallower
- The animal undone
- Sounds past the noises
- Behind the night's dress
- Christmas fish
- Dr. Frankenstein's hushed blood love song
- Normalaphobia
- Invisibilia
- Bloodlust
- The heroes
- Electricity
- By ship into the sea
- Twinklers
- The great reveal
- Out of the mist
- Epilogue: Where you will float electric.