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Jessica Restaino's Surrender offers an extremely powerful, absorbing narrative exchange of pain, support, transformation, and then absence. This book will confront and rearrange the reader's held sense of their bodies, of themselves and those they love, of illness and death. I can't imagine anyone reading this book and it not making an indelible mark. It will change how people teach and do research in rhetoric, composition, and many other fields, but it will also change people's minds and hearts. --Jay Timothy Dolmage, author of Disabled upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability In Surrender, Restaino pushes the field ever closer to the unknowable, moving toward a much-needed feminist ethics for questions of living and dying, and above all, building and sustaining connection. I was enthralled and pulled under with this breathtaking book, which reminds us all of how much research and life are inextricably entwined in all their messy complexities. --Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, author of Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference How does a researcher/collaborator/friend tell the story of a loved one's terminal illness? Searching, scathing, and elegant, Surrender shows us expanded possibilities of feminist research and writing. Beyond our current sense of the personal, of progress, of subjectivity, Jessica Restaino gives us instead the beautifully complicated work of the impossible, imperfect, incomplete subject. In so doing, she shows us the value of risk, failure, and uncertainty. It is a delicious and generative read, interweaving feminist and queer theories, medical rhetorics, qualitative methods, and the ineffable sense of the author's sorrow. --Jacqueline Rhodes, coauthor of On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies

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Jessica Restaino is an associate professor of writing studies and the director of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at Montclair State University. She is the author of First Semester: Graduate Students, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground and coeditor, with Laurie Cella, of Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University.

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