Diagnosed with cancer at age 12 and perilously pregnant at 18, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: Sometimes you can't believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. This autobiographical tale is stark and resolved, but strangely euphoric, tying together moments and memories into a frantic, delicate, and often transcendently funny account of anguish and confusion, pain and poverty, isolation and illusion. While staying conscious of the particulars of her circumstances, Lavender frames her life in the context of history, traveling, landscape, and freak show culture.
"Bee Lavender is a fantastic writer. Her work is deep and personal and I don't think there are any places she's scared to go. Reading her stories makes me feel brave, like I'm living a hard and infinitely redeeming life right along with her." —Michelle Tea