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Allison Gruber

You’re Not Edith: Autobiographical Essays

You’re Not Edith: Autobiographical Essays

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A brazenly funny, poignant memoir. 

This gutsy collection offers a brilliant reflection on life as a young lesbian and breast cancer survivor. Through discussions of madness, religion, gender, and feminism, Allison Gruber captivates with heartbreaking candor and wit. From her teenage Dian Fossey to her Virginia Woolf of Drama Club, the author invites us into a world of brash, bookish hilarity, as she navigates an unusual life, interrupted. In You’re Not Edith, Gruber asks herself how best to live and finds answers big enough for all of us.

  • Author: Allison Gruber
  • Publisher: George Braziller
  • Publication: February 15, 2015
  • ISBN: 9780807600054
  • Size: 5.37 in. x 8.25 in.
  • 160 pages

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  • Allison Gruber’s prose has appeared in a number of literary journals, and in the anthology Windy City Queer: Dispatches from the Third Coast. She has been a poet-in-residence with The Poetry Center of Chicago and holds an MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives with her wife in Flagstaff, AZ.
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