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How to Carry Scars by Dana Green

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ISBN - 978-0-9972924-8-0

Cover Art by Sergio Lopez



Olivia and her mother obsess over memories. For her mother, compulsion is a need to document everything in her life. To preserve. Olivia's urge is to revisit the scars of her body, as places of destruction. Yet, as Olivia grows up, she discovers that she cannot always rend memory from herself; it can burrow itself into places so deep that she can't make them bleed.

The wit and glittering intelligence of these stories is a kind of haunting in full daylight: the loss enacted in these stories ends up being filled by a spectacular humanity, by love for language, for light, and love for her deftly drawn characters. This book as a whole is an unexpected act of love.
- Bin Ramke, author of LIGHT WIND LIGHT LIGHT
 
Dana Green’s debut novel is a marvelously nuanced meditation on loss and desire and how one captures the intimacies of mourning. The mother-daughter relationship here is powerfully disturbing, a lyrical portrait of damage and love, a delicate exposure of the ways generations make memory into legacy. The novel is itself a beautiful scrapbook, filled with moments of pain and resilience. Just as the protagonist is preoccupied with keeping her wounds open, the writing here inflicts gorgeous rifts in our understanding of how the world works. The intensity of observation, the flashes of wit, and the razor-sharp attention to language create a series of unforgettable snapshots of a young woman who is fighting for control of her own identity, even as she plumbs the depths of her mother’s obsession and puzzles out “the fortune of leftovers.” The result is a haunting story of how the instantaneous lingers. The book is an incantation for the moment, the ephemeral, the half-healed scars that make a life.
- Tina May Hall, author of THE PHYSICS OF IMAGINARY OBJECTS

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