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Free Press/Simon & Schuster release date:
June 7, 2011
"If any memoir has a pulse running through it, if any work of art contains within it the potential of transcendence, it is in your hands. I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl begins in a kind of glorious, terrible, ridiculous chaos, but then as we get closer and closer to its heartbreaking center and to the narrator herself, the "heavy things" start falling off - of her, of us - a heaviness we didn't know we'd even been carrying. Kelle Groom has somehow found a container for each bright, hard spark of this life."
— Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking is the Bomb
"In language as precise and sparkling as the tip of a razor against your skin..."
— Will Allison, author of Long Drive Home
"Gorgeous, poetic language ... is the backbone of this unflinching look at a life saved by forgiveness.Are you a human being? Read this book!"
— Starred pre-pub review, Library Journal
"Groom’s stunning memoir reads more like poetry than prose and leaves the ‘brain singing with neurons like a city at night.’ . . . . Her astonishing struggle and unique resurrection illuminate the universal human effort to embrace one’s self, accepting personal flaws, demons, and methods of survival.”
— Booklist
"In a series of beautifully compressed narratives, Groom, who grapples here with the very meaning of motherhood, describes devastating binges... As heartbreaking as this book is, Groom writes with a captivating urgency. Her salvation, a result of her tireless quest for clarity, will leave you cheering."
— Susanna Sonnenberg, More
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Excerpts:
AGNI: "How to Make a Shoe"
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Side B Magazine: excerpt from "Palindrome"
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Full Text: "Palindrome" in Brevity
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