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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive - On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (Hardcover)
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I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive - On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (Hardcover)
Series: American Music Series
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When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood.
It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by
and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music
legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural Tennessee. Yet
Dollywood is exactly where Melnick—a poet, urbanite, and daughter
of a middle-class Jewish family—needed to be. Because Melnick,
like the musician she adores, is a survivor. In this bracing
memoir, Melnick explores Parton’s dual identities as feminist
icon and objectified sex symbol—identities that reflect the
author’s own fraught history with rape culture and the grueling
effort to reclaim her voice in the wake of loss and trauma. Each
chapter engages with the artistry and cultural impact of one of
Parton’s songs, as Melnick reckons with violence, creativity,
parenting, abortion, sex work, love, and the consolations and
cruelties of religion. Guided by Parton’s music, Melnick walks
the slow path to recovery in the company of those who came before
her and stand with her, as trauma is an experience both unique and
universal. Candid and discerning, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to
Survive is at once a memoir and a love song—a story about one
life and about an artist who has brought life to millions.
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