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Spare is a memoir that weaves personal history, research, found documents, and present-day narrative. Some recurring sections are epistolary, some concern a single character, others are found correspondence. The book incorporates the lexicon of online forums, the history of eugenics in Maine, facts about the region's drug epidemic, and internal dialogue. Sections braid and layer, providing texture and context to complex themes that include personal and social accountability, privilege, prejudice, socio-economic class, family legacy, and the unreliability of truth.

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Michelle Lewis is the recipient of the 2018 Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize chosen by Bob Hicok and is the author of Animul/Flame (Conduit Books & Ephemera), which was a finalist for the 2020 Maine Literary Award and winner of the 2020 Midwest Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in Bennington Review, Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, Massachusetts Review, and Denver Quarterly among others. She has written for Gettysburg Review, Rain Taxi, Electric Lit, and Anomaly. She is the recipient of two Maine Arts Commission grants, a Vermont Studio Center fellowship and residency, a Monson Arts fellowship and residency, and she has been awarded residencies at The Studios of Key West and Studio Faire in Nérac, France. She lives in Maine.

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