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• Title:My body is a book of rules / Elissa Washuta.
  
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• Author/Creator:Washuta, Elissa, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2014]
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: YS W37 M9 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Washuta, Elissa.
  Indian women--North America--Biography.
  Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.
  College teachers--United States--Biography.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:189 pages ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds 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 in the space of an hour. Her crisis of American Indian identity bleeds into other areas of self-doubt; mental illness, sexual trauma, ethnic identity, and independence become intertwined. Sifting through 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 through the distorting lens of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and contrasts her bipolar highs and lows with those of Britney Spears and Kurt Cobain. Built on 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 look at human fallibility.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical note in back of book.
  
• ISBN:9781597099691 (tradepaper ; alk. paper)
  1597099694 (tradepaper ; alk. paper)
  
• Contents:The dread
  Note
  Please him
  Faster than your heart can beat
  Preliminary bibliography
  The kindling model in bipolar disorder
  Prescribing information
  Dear diary
  Fucker and fucked
  Dear diary, part 2
  Sexually based offenses
  Actually ...
  Many famous people suffer from bipolar disorder
  I will perfect every line until my profile is flawless
  Please him, part 2
  The global positioning effect.