Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Anna Gurton-Wachter Experience dismantled and sewn back

Experience dismantled and sewn back together with glowing needles and a mouth full of stars

The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist

between parent and child

Born into wealth yet frugal

accompanying her parents’ Socialist campaigns

Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney Anna Gurton-Wachter Experience dismantled and sewn backJoy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease. Humble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe "the collection feels like a conversation with your greatest friend, over the best dinner.