City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

This is really happening, true stories by Erin Chack

eng

autobiography

no index present

Adolescent

non fiction

This is really happening

true stories by Erin Chack

Erin recounts everything from her first kiss ("Sean's tongue! In my mouth! Slippery and wet like a slug in the rain") to her struggles with anxiety ("When people throw caution to the wind, I am stuck imagining the poor soul who has to break his back sweeping caution into a dustpan"). She writes about surviving cancer at age nineteen and learning of her mother's own cancer diagnosis within the same year, and her attempts to hide the diagnosis from friends to avoid "un-normaling" everything. Honest, hilarious, and totally unfiltered, this sharply observed memoir introduces Erin Chack as a strikingly original new voice

Girl-Shaped Tornado -- Bury Me With Poison Ivy -- Don't Read The Comments -- Rena Or Bear? -- It'll Grow Back -- A Sea Of Kates -- Find Your Carrot -- Why I Can Never Visit Egypt -- Greener Pastures -- Urine Trouble -- Memento Mori

adolescent