Spirography: A Memoir

Author:   Cara Stoddard
Publisher:   Wayne State University Press
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9780814351901


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 April 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Spirography: A Memoir


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A story of kinship, queerness, and the secrets of the body in the wake of illness and loss. Spirography is a coming-of-age memoir about the bond between a father and daughter, their intertwined illnesses, and the enduring love that persists even after death. This memoir follows author Cara Stoddard's intersecting experiences of cancer, grief, and sexuality, rooted in the suburban Midwest of the late twentieth century--where idyllic lake life, water sports, NASCAR, Christian rock, and a willful ignorance around queerness define the landscape. Set in the author's childhood home on a lake in Michigan, this lyrical archive of a family navigating crisis is an elegy not only for the memory of her father but also the end of her childhood spent outdoors. Stoddard takes the reader intimately through the checkpoints of her coming-of-age story--including working at a summer camp, moving to Colorado, falling in love, coming out--each leg of the journey backdropped by her father's declining health and the author's own incremental acceptance of this impending loss. Writing from ten years after her father's death, she traces her experiences of becoming a stepparent, carrying on her dad's legacy, and, in unimaginable ways, bringing him back to life.

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Author:   Cara Stoddard
Publisher:   Wayne State University Press
Imprint:   Wayne State University Press
ISBN:  

9780814351901


ISBN 10:   0814351905
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 April 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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Cara Stoddard is a creative nonfiction writer and poet who grew up on a lake in Michigan. Their poems and essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, The Gettysburg Review, Terrain.org, and Ninth Letter. Currently, they live in Seattle with their stepdaughter.

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