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Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life
- Title
- Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life / Amanda Stern.
- Author
- Stern, Amanda
- Publication
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- viii, 389 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The ordinary world never made sense to Amanda, who grew up certain her friends and family would die or disappear if she quit watching them, compulsively treating every parting as a final good-bye. Shuttled between divorced parents, from a barefoot bohemian existence in Greenwich Village to a sanitized, stricter world uptown, this smart, sensitive little girl experienced life through the distorting lens of an undiagnosed panic disorder. Her darkly funny memoir is at once a love letter to 1970-80s New York City, a coming-of-age story of an anxious, unusually perceptive child, and a window into adult life and relationships lived on the razor's edge of panic.
- Subjects
- Authors, American
- Anxiety in children
- Stern, Amanda
- New York (State) > New York
- Mental health
- Anxiety in children > Biography
- Popular Works
- Personal Narratives
- Panic disorders > Patients > Biography
- Stern, Amanda > Mental health
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women
- Anxiety > Biography
- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary Figures
- New York (N.Y.) > Biography
- Autobiographies
- Authors, American > 21st century > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Personal Narratives.
- Popular Works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page ix).
- Contents
- I am not a clock -- Not the right kind of human -- Maybe I am not a person -- How to say what's wrong -- The system of the world -- Countdown to Karen Silkwood -- The underside of perfect -- My real family -- Not-Melissa -- Someone kicked the Earth -- If time were a dog -- Oh how we glowed -- Scapegoat -- Frankie Bird -- Jinx -- Yes, no, maybe, I don't know -- Listen carefully and say exactly what I say -- Normal-sized -- A beautiful, gorgeous life -- A stay-behind kid -- The bright side -- The drainpipe man -- A word never means only one thing -- A sense of rightness -- Hunky dory -- My life stained the world -- I'm the test to solve -- Everywhere I look, families -- Anarchy -- When I turn eighteen -- What if I give birth to myself? -- Who doesn't want to be in a play? -- One right way to be a person -- Homeless -- I am a pinball machine -- The system is the problem -- The dread, the relief -- Waiting to move on -- The body -- Waited my whole life to be normal -- Forever Mama -- Take care of the animals -- Certainty -- To be the same.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-8268
- ISBN
- 9781538711927
- 1538711923
- LCCN
- 2017963706
- OCLC
- 1038786551
- Author
- Stern, Amanda, author.
- Title
- Little panic : dispatches from an anxious life / Amanda Stern.
- Publisher
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page ix).
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-8268