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Driven : a white-knuckled ride to heartbreak and back : a memoir
- Title
- Driven : a white-knuckled ride to heartbreak and back : a memoir / Melissa Stephenson.
- Author
- Stephenson, Melissa (Creative Writer)
- Publication
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-3827 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 241 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A searing memoir about one woman's road through heartbreak to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her. Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson--a dreamer and budding writer born with an innate wanderlust--longed for escape, and she found in automobiles the promise of a future beyond Indiana state lines. From a lineage of secondhand family cars of the late '60s, to the '70s Ford she drove away from her brother's house after he took his life (leaving Melissa the truck, a dog, and a few mixed tapes), to the VW van she now uses to take her kids camping, she knows these cars better than she knows some of the people closest to her. Driven through grief and toward hope, Melissa reckons with what it means to lose a beloved sibling, with a voice as achingly beautiful as it is raw. Driven is a powerful story of healing, for all who have had to look back at pain to find the way forward."--Dust jacket.
- Subjects
- Women
- Automobile travel
- Middle West
- Automobiles > Social aspects
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Siblings
- Stephenson, Melissa (Creative Writer)
- Automobile travel > United States
- TRANSPORTATION > Automotive > General
- Automobile driving > Psychological aspects
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Middle West > Biography
- Automobiles > Social aspects > United States
- Automobile driving > United States > Psychological aspects
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
- Women > Middle West > Biography
- Biography
- United States
- TRAVEL > United States > Midwest > General
- Autobiographies
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- "For fans of Wild, a searing memoir about one woman's road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her"--Provided by publisher.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-3827
- ISBN
- 9781328768292
- 1328768295
- LCCN
- 2017045349
- OCLC
- 994509901
- Author
- Stephenson, Melissa (Creative Writer), author.
- Title
- Driven : a white-knuckled ride to heartbreak and back : a memoir / Melissa Stephenson.
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Stephenson, Melissa (Creative Writer). Driven. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 9781328768308 (DLC) 2018009677
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-3827