{"product_id":"this-is-a-story-about-ghosts-a-memoir-of-borderline-personality-disorder","title":"This is a Story About Ghosts: A Memoir of Borderline Personality Disorder","description":"What is lust?\nSomething about destruction.\nSomething about fear.\nSomething about something that hurts deeper than you have words for.\nSomething about something that hurt you before you even had words.\nYou want a lover who knows that the work of living is struggling to thrive with a blade lodged in your side.\nBecause if you show up on his stoop in a trench coat and begin to seductively untie it, he’s not going to marvel.\nHe’s going to ask about that cleaver to your gut.\n“This is my mother,” you’ll explain.\nYou’ll point to the mangled stump of your thigh and say, “My dad. He just vanished.”\nThen he’ll see the bubbling tar pouring out of your womb, blistering your thighs, enveloping him with steam.\nYou’ll lick his earlobe, whispering, “This is my rage.”\n\nAnne Champion was raised in a home riddled with violence. She bonded with other troubled children of parents who masked dark secrets, causing her to recreate the emotional patterns of her childhood until she felt her only escape was suicide. But a miraculous experience involving a ghost from her past—her first love who committed suicide as a teenager—sets her on a path to re-examine her life and uncover the secrets lurking within people she loved most. As she does, she meets a sociopath who takes her to the origin story: a predatory stalker.\n\nIn this memoir, Champion recreates the 1990s world of her youth: of hip hop and grunge culture, of the AIDS epidemic and LGBTQ rights, of slut shaming and sexual liberation, of children with mental health problems and a new Prozac nation, and of griefs that carve through our generational traumas like a river threatening flood. As Champion dedicates herself to psychological healing from her past, she stumbles upon a new self awareness of her lifelong mental struggle she couldn't name before: Borderline Personality Disorder.\n\nWhat curses befall abused children? What wreckage can be unearthed in a childhood of drowning? What lessons can be drawn from a descent into the underworld?\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0CZ6ZG67M\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0CZ6ZG67M.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Champion, Anne\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43608375984189,"sku":"BVV.B0CZ6ZG67M.A","price":14.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/B0CZ6ZG67M-0.jpg?v=1789163109","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/this-is-a-story-about-ghosts-a-memoir-of-borderline-personality-disorder","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}