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Your hearts, your scars

"Adina Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations over the course of her childhood, including a heart transplant at age nineteen. In these seven essays, she tells the story of her chronic illness and her youthful search for love and meaning, never forge...

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Main Author: Talve-Goodman, Adina (Author)
Other Authors: Talve-Goodman, Sarika (Editor, author of introduction.), Tinti, Hannah (Editor, author of afterword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Talve-Goodman, Adina.
Heart > Transplantation > Patients > Biography.
Congenital heart disease > Patients > Biography.
Cancer > Patients > Biography.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: About Adina / by Jo Firestone
  • Introduction / by Sarika Talve-Goodman
  • I must have been that man
  • San Diego, 2001
  • The condition of my transplanted heart is one of remembering
  • Men who love dying women and fishing
  • Your heart, your scars, zombies
  • Should you hold me down (go on, take it)
  • Thank God for the nights that go right
  • Afterword: the Adina Talve-Goodman fellowship / by Hannah Tinti.

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