My Body Is a Book of Rules

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As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she unearths herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back within the area of an hour. Her crisis of American Indian identity bleeds into other spaces of self-doubt; mental illness, sexual trauma, ethnic identity, and independence turn into intertwined. Sifting throughout the scraps of her past in seventeen formally inventive chapters, Washuta aligns the strictures of her Catholic school education with Cosmopolitan’s mandates for womanhood, views memories throughout the distorting lens of Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit, and contrasts her bipolar highs and lows with the ones of Britney Spears and Kurt Cobain. Built at the bones of fundamental identity questions as contorted by a distressed brain, My Body Is a Book of Rules pulls no punches in its self-deprecating and ferocious take a look at human fallibility.

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