The Perpetual Motion Machine

✍ Scribed by Brittany Ackerman

• Book ID: 100553030
• Publisher: Project Muse, Red Hen Press
• Year: 2018,2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: Baltimore, Maryland, Pasadena California, United States.
• ISBN: 1597096334

✦ Synopsis

Inspired by a brother's high school science project--a perpetual motion machine that could save the world--The Perpetual Motion Machine is a memoir in essays that attempts to save a sibling by depicting the visceral pain that accompanies longing for some past impossibility. The collection has been a science project in its study of memory, in the calculation and plotting of the moments that make up a childhood. The preparation has been "in the field" in that it is built upon the gathering of lived experience; the evidence is photo albums, family interviews, and anecdotes from friends. The project has been one giant experiment--to see if they can all make it out alive.;Fire drill -- You can fly -- The Big Apple -- Into the Hudson -- Papagalos -- Prisoners -- Bullfight -- Square pizzas -- Escape from the bottom -- Mario saves the princess -- Apples to oranges -- The transportation center -- A brief history of partying -- In the forest -- Birthday girl -- Much needed prayer -- The perpetual motion machine -- Space mountain.

✦ Subjects

United States