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A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers
poignant reflections on living between society's most charged,
politicized, and intractably polar spaces-between black and white,
rich and poor, thin and fat. Savala Nolan knows what it means to
live in the in-between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father
and a white mother, Nolan's mixed-race identity is obvious, for
better and worse. At her mother's encouragement, she began her
first diet at the age of three and has been both fat and painfully
thin throughout her life. She has experienced both the discomfort
of generational poverty and the ease of wealth and privilege. It is
these liminal spaces-of race, class, and body type-that the essays
in Don't Let It Get You Down excavate, presenting a clear and
nuanced understanding of our society's most intractable points of
tension. The twelve essays that comprise this collection are rich
with unforgettable anecdotes and are as humorous and as full of
Nolan's appetites as they are of anxieties. Over and over again,
Nolan reminds us that our true identities are often most
authentically lived not in the black and white, but in the grey of
the in-between.
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