An Image of My Name Enters America
Essays
by Lucy Ives
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Pub Date Oct 15 2024 | Archive Date Oct 07 2024
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Description
From a “brilliant, one-of-a-kind maestro” (Booklist), a vibrant tapestry of memoir, research, and criticism
Again, today, if I must choose between love and memory, I choose memory.
What would you risk to know yourself? Which stories are you willing to follow to the bitter end, revise, or, possibly, begin all over? In this collection of five interrelated essays, Lucy Ives explores identity, national fantasy, and history. She examines events and records from her own life—a childhood obsession with My Little Pony, papers and notebooks from college, an unwitting inculcation into the myth of romantic love, and the birth of her son—to excavate larger aspects of the past that have been suppressed or ignored. With bracing insight and extraordinary range, she weaves new stories about herself, her family, our country, and our culture. She connects postmodern irony to eighteenth-century cults, Cold War musicals to a great uncle’s suicide to the settlement of the American West, museum period rooms to the origins of her last name to the Assyrian genocide, and the sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem to the development of modern obstetrics. Here Ives retrieves shadowy sites of pain and fear and, with her boundless imagination, attentiveness, and wit, transforms them into narratives of repair and possibility.
Advance Praise
“Extraordinary . . . a dazzling display of knowledge, wit, ratiocination, and prose style.”—Kirkus Reviews
“An enormously inviting, surprising, increasingly strange (in the best way), compelling and gripping book.”—Maureen N. McLane
“Lucy Ives is a visionary writer/citizen/woman/image/mother/lover/person/body who charts the mind-boggling wobble of these unstable categories. Learned and harrowing, urgent and companionable, cruelly optimistic, her essay-quests bristle with accuracy as they take us to the edge and beyond.”—Robert Glück
“Ives’s writing simply has to be experienced. There are paragraphs and even sentences here that make whole essays in themselves, with a sculptural intensity you can circumnavigate, and the light of her thinking pours from the apertures.”—Jonathan Lethem
“This is the kind of book you want to read aloud to people you love, to assign, to give as a present—but don’t loan this one; you might not get it back.”—Alexander Chee
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National publicity campaign
National bookseller outreach
3-city author tour
Social media promotion
Targeted digital advertising
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781644453117 |
PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 336 |
Links
Available on NetGalley
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