Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays (American Lives)

Gold Medal for the 2025 IPPY Award Winner of the 2025 International Book Award in Best New Nonfiction Finalist for the 2025 International Book Award in Nonfiction: Creative Urgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks. Using cosmology as a foil to discuss human issues, Bailey Gaylin Moore describes praying to the sky during moments of despondency, observing a solar eclipse while reflecting on what it means to be in the penumbra of society, and using galaxy identification to understand herself. During a collision of women’s rights, gun policy, and racial tension, Thank You for Staying with Me is a frank and intimate rumination on how national policy and social attitudes affect both the individual and the public sphere, especially in such a conservative part of the United States.
ASIN: 1496241932
VSKU: BVV.1496241932.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Moore, Bailey Gaylin
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use