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The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir

✍ Scribed by Daley-Ward, Yrsa

Book ID: 110492646
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Year: 2018
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 656 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780143132622

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✦ Synopsis

From the celebrated poet behind bone, a lyrical memoir—part prose, part verse—about coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and the beauty of the wider world, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds of family

"My little brother and I saw a unicorn in the garden in the late nineties.
I'm telling you. Neither one of us made it up; it was as real as anything else."

So begins The Terrible, Yrsa Daley-Ward's brave, raw, completely lyrical memoir that captures the surreal magic and incredible discomfort of adolescence, burgeoning sexuality, rootlessness, and connection.

Through emotional snapshots that span from her adolescence through her early twenties, each brought to life in Yrsa's gorgeous signature style of open white spaces and stirring, singular lines, The Terrible evokes the pain and thrill of girlhood, as well as what it means to discover the fear and power that come with...

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