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Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
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2019
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2 editions
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Giveaway copies mailed! Also an award.
I just finished my first Goodreads giveaway! More than 1,200 people signed up and I mailed out the 40 ARC copies over the last couple of days. As a debut author, it is still hard to imagine people across the country potentially reading my book, so this was a lovely way to make the book's publication real to me. As I prepared the address labels on my handy DYMO LabelWriter (love this small machi...
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“Amy, almost five and already a secretive and acquisitive creature, devoted herself to eating the discarded chewing gum she found all over the city. Well, not exactly eat. She was old enough to understand the basic principle of gum. She would swap gum in her mouth for other gum throughout the day.”
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“Then, remembering how thin Dad had been, I suggested nutritional deficiencies had contributed to his rapid deterioration. My brother responded, no lie: "Yeah, probably. You can't really live on Cheez-Its and oatmeal." So here is the lesson: if you create a dope-addled son, whom you never fed properly when he was a child and who is going to inherit your largish estate, you had best not put that son in charge of your meals.”
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“I remember how they looked at me when they made me move out of their house when I was fifteen; when they met my friends at my college graduation; when they were across the conference table from me at the legal deposition. Reflected in their eyes is what they saw-a rogue turd bolus, swirling around and around and refusing to go down. If it's true that I'm locked in a decades-long death match with these people, I'm the one who's going to win. One down, one to go.”
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
“We are entering a new era in which the explosion of untested chemicals in our everyday lives means that conditions like mine are in turn destined to explode in frequency. People like me cannot be marginalized forever.”
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
“Then, remembering how thin Dad had been, I suggested nutritional deficiencies had contributed to his rapid deterioration. My brother responded, no lie: "Yeah, probably. You can't really live on Cheez-Its and oatmeal." So here is the lesson: if you create a dope-addled son, whom you never fed properly when he was a child and who is going to inherit your largish estate, you had best not put that son in charge of your meals.”
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“I remember how they looked at me when they made me move out of their house when I was fifteen; when they met my friends at my college graduation; when they were across the conference table from me at the legal deposition. Reflected in their eyes is what they saw-a rogue turd bolus, swirling around and around and refusing to go down. If it's true that I'm locked in a decades-long death match with these people, I'm the one who's going to win. One down, one to go.”
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
“We are entering a new era in which the explosion of untested chemicals in our everyday lives means that conditions like mine are in turn destined to explode in frequency. People like me cannot be marginalized forever.”
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
“I didn't see his penis as often as I did my mother's breasts, but I could pick it out of a lineup, no problem.”
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
“Amy, almost five and already a secretive and acquisitive creature, devoted herself to eating the discarded chewing gum she found all over the city. Well, not exactly eat. She was old enough to understand the basic principle of gum. She would swap gum in her mouth for other gum throughout the day.”
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
― Sensitive: My Journey through a Toxic World
