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Body Geographic

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ISBN-10: 0803239858

ISBN-13: 9780803239852

Edition: N/A

Authors: Barrie Jean Borich

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A memoir from the award-winning author ofMy Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich’sBody Geographicturns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself. One coordinate of Borich’s story is Chicago, the prototypical Great Lakes port city built by immigrants like her great-grandfather Big Petar, and the other is her own port of immigration, Minneapolis, the combined skylines of these two cities tattooed on Borich’s own back. Between Chicago and Minneapolis Borich maps her own Midwest, a true heartland in which she measures the distance between the dreams and…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.50" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Barrie Jean Borich is the author Body Geographic , forthcoming in the American Lives Series of the University of Nebraska Press (2012). Borich was awarded the ALA Stonewall Book Award for My Lesbian Husband (Graywolf, 2000) and was the recipient of the 2010 Florida Review Editor's Prize in the Essay and the 2010 Crab Orchard Review Literary Nonfiction Prize. She's an assistant professor in the MFA/BFA programs at Hamline University, where she's the nonfiction editor of Water~Stone Review.