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For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs
A work of Non-fiction by Kathleen Rooney
Subgenres:
- Essay Collection,
- Coming-of-Age,
- Memoir
This book is for you if you're into...
- Memoirs mixing animal retirement homes and New York literary pilgrimages
- Offbeat coming-of-age essays with political and poetic detours
- Sharp reflections on growing up in twenty-first century America
In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twenty–first century, Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years, but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn.
Varied and original, the tales in For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs recount the perils of falling in love with the unlikeliest of people, of visiting the New York apartments of a vanished poet, and of touring an animal retirement home with her parents. Of getting a Brazilian wax, and of chauffeuring a U.S. senator around town. Of saying good–bye to a cousin who's joining a convent, and of trying to convince herself that she's not wasting her life.
This is a book about love and longing, poetry and plagiarism, death and democracy, mountain floods and Midwestern cicadas. Here is a young woman struggling to find her place as an adult and a citizen in an America that rarely manages to live up to Whitman's dream of it.
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