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The Call Is Coming from Inside the House: Essays

The Call Is Coming from Inside the House: Essays

McOuat, Allyson

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Letters & EssaysDeath & DyingGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

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ISBN10: 1770417559
ISBN13: 9781770417557
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: Apr 30 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.33 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
From Allyson McOuat, author of the popular 2020 New York Times Modern Love essay The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems, comes her debut essay collection

In a series of intimate and humorous dispatches, McOuat examines her identity as a queer woman, and as a mother, through the lens of the pop culture moments in the '80s and '90s that molded her identity. McOuat stirs the ingredients required to conjure an unsettled spirit: the horrors of pregnancy and motherhood, love and loss, the supernatural, kaleidoscopic sexuality, near-miss experiences, and the unexplained moments in life that leave you haunted.

Through her own life experiences, various tall tales, urban legends, analysis of horror and thriller films, and spine-chilling true crime incidents, McOuat uncovers how cultural gatekeeping has forced her, as a mother and queer femme woman, to persistently question her own reality. Through this charming and humorous exploration of what moments have made her who she is, McOuat demonstrates for readers a way through by forgiving herself and exorcising her stubborn attachment to a phantom, heteronormative, nuclear family structure.

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