Bibliograph

I've had to think up a way to survive, on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton, Lynn Melnick

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I've had to think up a way to survive, on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton, Lynn Melnick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

I've had to think up a way to survive

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1294152646

Responsibility statement

Lynn Melnick

Series statement

American music series

Sub title

on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton

Summary

"When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she spent the money from her NYPL fellowship on a trip to Dollywood with her family. Melnick's trauma began long before 2018, but events of that year forced her to relive portions of it--abortions, drug abuse, rape--even as she was confronting new pain in the loss of close friends and family. Dolly Parton's music had been a balm and a source of inspiration for decades, and so the trip to Dollywood was "a personal reckoning with my traumatic, often violent past...the culmination of a difficult year that left me wanting to get to the bottom of just what it is I love and need to say about Dolly." Each chapter of this book explores some aspect of Melnick's life through the lens of one of Parton's songs. Melnick is a mother, wife, daughter, survivor, poet; this manuscript has her examining sex, sex work, religion, jealousy, class, nostalgia, aging, illness, motherhood, addiction, abortion, and art, among other topics that can be illuminated in a discussion and appreciation of Dolly's music and life"--, Provided by publisher

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I have had to think up a way to survive

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