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With language, Gaudry is as loving \u0026amp; careful as one is with a matchbook . . . when wishing to set the whole word on fire. --Kate Bernheimer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Tales of Merry Gold\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Molly Gaudry's debut evokes the spirit of iconic fairy tales that have transported readers for centuries. Her variations on these themes delineate the psychological journey from girlhood to womanhood. But \u003ci\u003eWe Take Me Apart\u003c\/i\u003e is more than a retelling. In it, Gaudry reconstitutes the essence of what makes fairy tales compelling, and she does so imaginatively and with great attention to language, the earmarks of poetry.--Christopher Kennedy, author of \u003ci\u003eEncouragement for a Man Falling to His Death\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Molly Gaudry's \u003ci\u003eWe Take Me Apart\u003c\/i\u003e works thread into lace . . . especially vivid in this book-length work is the mother's entrance and exit, where the ragged lines swell and turn sonnet-like with love.--Terese Svoboda, author of \u003ci\u003eWeapons Grade\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Molly Gaudry's \u003ci\u003eWe Take Me Apart\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzleflage of a book. The stuttering disrupted language of this cubist concoction disappears before your ears, sinks into your eyes. This aggressive dress camouflage reweaves Gertrude Stein's rewoven grammar of worsted silk-screened gabardine into a fully ripped patois-ed pattern of stunning wonder.--Michael Martone, author of \u003ci\u003eMichael Martone\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49592747327761,"sku":"GOR006982643","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50377470083345,"sku":"CIN0988732882G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011049357585,"sku":"NIN9780988732889","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51334305874193,"sku":"CIN0988732882VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52664512381201,"sku":"NLS9780988732889","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0988732882.jpg?v=1750706722"},{"product_id":"desire-book-molly-gaudry-9780986137037","title":"Desire","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51010848030993,"sku":"NIN9780986137037","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0986137030.jpg?v=1751141091"},{"product_id":"fit-into-me-book-molly-gaudry-9781941628379","title":"Fit Into Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her most innovative book yet, Molly Gaudry embarks on a search for belonging amid loss, framing her memoir around a fictional narrative featuring the tea house woman--a character who appeared first as bride-to-be and then as widow in her earlier books. As Gaudry grapples with traumatic brain injury, family secrets, repressed memories, and the job market in her essays, the tea house woman goes on a parallel quest of identity and desire. Gaudry also delves into literature as guide and comfort, using the words of authors as wide-ranging as Sappho, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Marguerite Duras, and José Saramago to form yet another text within a text. Artfully braided into a hybrid-genre tour de force, the many strands of \u003ci\u003eFit Into Me: A Novel: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e ask: to what extent can fiction reveal more about an author than nonfiction?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the tea house woman manages a mercurial lover, a family business, and caring for her dying father during the winter holidays, Gaudry, too, reflects on some of her own challenges: relearning, post-skating injury, to read and write while in the midst of earning a PhD; questioning her loneliness, desires, and ability to connect; wondering what it would be like if her biological brother flew in from Korea to inform her that their father has died; and navigating her identity as a transnational adoptee. 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