Spirography by Cara Stoddard
is a coming-of-age memoir about the bond between a father and daughter, their intertwined illnesses, and the enduring love that persists even after death. This memoir follows author Cara Stoddard's intersecting experiences of cancer, grief, and sexuality, rooted in the suburban Midwest of the late twentieth century--where idyllic lake life, water sports, NASCAR, Christian rock, and a willful ignorance around queerness define the landscape. Set in the author's childhood home on a lake in Michigan, this lyrical archive of a family navigating crisis is an elegy not only for the memory of her father but also the end of her childhood spent outdoors. Stoddard takes the reader intimately through the checkpoints of her coming-of-age story--including working at a summer camp, moving to Colorado, falling in love, coming out--each leg of the journey backdropped by her father's declining health and the author's own incremental acceptance of this impending loss. Writing from ten years after her father's death, she traces her experiences of becoming a stepparent, carrying on her dad's legacy, and, in unimaginable ways, bringing him back to life.-
Blue-Tail Fly
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You're in the Wrong Place
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A Fine Canopy
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Know the Mother
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Of Blood and Rivers
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The Winds That Scatter
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Ragged Anthem
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Decoding the Hill of Dead Kings
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Lo-Fi Citadels
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Black Summers
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Making Callaloo in Detroit
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Night Manual
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American Salvage
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In the Bone-Cracking Cold
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REMNANTS and What Remains
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The Patron Saint of Lost Girls
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The Lake Huron Mermaid
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These Are Love(d) Letters
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What Can the Matter Be?
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We Live Here
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Stilettos in a Rifle Range
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Grief's Country
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Bob Seger's House and Other Stories
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Words Like Thunder
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Gun/Shy
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When Our Fathers Return to Us As Birds
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Kin
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Weweni
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Love, Sex, and 4-H
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To Light a Fire
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Elemental
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Meet Behind Mars
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The Forgetting Tree
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Garden for the Blind
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Enough to Lose
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When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double
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I Have the Answer
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Rowing Inland
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780814351901 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814351905 |
| Title | Spirography |
| Author | Cara Stoddard |
| Series | Made In Michigan Writers Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
| Year published | 2025-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |