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Driven : a white-knuckled ride to heartbreak and back : a memoir

Author
Stephenson, Melissa (Creative Writer), author.
Title
Driven : a white-knuckled ride to heartbreak and back : a memoir / Melissa Stephenson.
Format
Book
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] ©2018
Description
xiii, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Notes
"For fans of Wild, a searing memoir about one woman's road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her"--Provided by publisher.
Summary
"A searing memoir about one woman's road through heartbreak to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her. Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson--a dreamer and budding writer born with an innate wanderlust--longed for escape, and she found in automobiles the promise of a future beyond Indiana state lines. From a lineage of secondhand family cars of the late '60s, to the '70s Ford she drove away from her brother's house after he took his life (leaving Melissa the truck, a dog, and a few mixed tapes), to the VW van she now uses to take her kids camping, she knows these cars better than she knows some of the people closest to her. Driven through grief and toward hope, Melissa reckons with what it means to lose a beloved sibling, with a voice as achingly beautiful as it is raw. Driven is a powerful story of healing, for all who have had to look back at pain to find the way forward."--Jacket.
Subject headings
Stephenson, Melissa (Creative Writer) Automobiles--Social aspects--United States. Automobile travel--United States. Automobile driving--United States--Psychological aspects. Women--Middle West--Biography. Middle West--Biography.
Genre heading
Biography. Autobiographies.
ISBN
9781328768292 (hardcover) 1328768295 (hardcover)

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Library
Columbus - University Library of Columbus
Call Number
CT275.S68725 A3 2018
Location
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