White Magic emerges as a collection that is not as much a “working through” as it is a “working with,” sifting through the fictions that shape, maim, and at times save us.
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Barrelhouse Reviews: Starvation Mode by Elissa Washuta
Memoir is meant to allow memories to marinate amongst the broader experiences of the writer’s readers. There’s no shortage of memoirs about eating disorders and coming of age despite difficult odds. Divided into three unequal parts, Starvation Mode is less about disorder and more about creating order from the unruly and otherwise uncontrollable forces that fight to determine what makes a woman.
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