Delinquents Essays ／Lisa Wells （Farrar, Straus and Giroux）

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Searching, surprising essays on making a life and making sense of lifeーas an artist, a daughter, a mother, a survivorーfrom the acclaimed author of Believers. Lisa Wells came of age on the margins. The daughter of failed performers, she grew up in poverty in the Pacific Northwest among rebels and rockers, kids from broken homes united by their love of art. Across this collection, Wells writes with humor and gravity about poetry, poverty, a doomed first marriage, her sister’s mysterious death, and the spiritual pilgrimage of motherhood. Both deeply personal and insistently outward-looking, her writing draws from psychology, philosophy, pop culture, and a voracious reading life, probing the possibilities of survival and reinvention. What emerges is a portrait of a mind always hungryーfor meaning, for beauty, for insight, for honestyーcharting a path from the chaos of childhood to the hard-won, still-precarious stability of adulthood. Candid, funny, dark, and profound, Delinquents is a fierc

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