"An exquisite, aching memoir of adolescent girlhood. . . . Treasures await." āMinneapolis Star Tribune
"A lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn't offer you a space." āJenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
After spending four years of adolescence in suburban North Carolina, Kristine Langley Mahler, even as an adult, is still buffeted by the cultural differences between her pioneer-like upbringing in Oregon and the settled southern traditions into which she could never assimilate. Collecting evidence of displacementāa graveyard in a mall parking lot, a suburban neighborhood of white kids bused to desegregate public schools in the 1990s, and the death of her best friendāCuring Season is an attempt to understand her failed grasp at belonging.
Mahler's yearning for acceptance remains buried like a splinter, which she carefully tweezes out in the form of artifacts from her youth. But it isn't until she encounters a book of local family histories that she takes inhabitation and truth apart, grafting and twisting and imprinting her history on theirs, until even she can no longer tell the difference between their truth and her own. Using inventive essay forms, Mahler pries apart the cracks of exclusion and experiments with the nature of belonging, memory, and place. Curing Season is a coming-of-age memoir for anyone who grew up anywhere but home.
- 192 pages
- English
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Print ISBN
9781952271656
Subtopic
Social Science BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Surface Tension
- Club Pines
- Shadowbox
- A Fixed Plot
- MƤdchenfƤnger
- Sheāll Only Come Out at Night
- Creepsake
- Not Something Thatās Gone
- Out Line
- In the Burn Pile Behind the Old Nobles House
- A Pit Is Removed, a Hollow Remains
- Alignment
- Pull Me Through the Doorway
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
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