The TwentySeventh Letter of the Alphabet by Kim Adrian PAPERBACK 9781496201973

The TwentySeventh Letter of the Alphabet\nby Kim Adrian\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kim Adrian\nTitle: The TwentySeventh Letter of the Alphabet\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Memoirs\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781496201973\nISBN-10: 1496201973\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nClear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabetis about a daughter\u2019s struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs ofthe 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness, addiction, and violence, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rageand trudging through a fog of confusio.