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Lädt ... Thin Skinvon Jenn Shapland
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"From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity--thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she becomes aware of the impacts her tiniest choices have on people, places, and species far away, she can't stop seeing the ways we are enmeshed and entangled with everyone else on the planet. Despite our attempts to cordon ourselves off from risk, our boundaries are permeable. Weaving together historical research, interviews, and her everyday life in New Mexico as source material, Shapland probes the lines between self and work, human and animal, need and desire. She traces the legacies of nuclear weapons development on Native land, unable to let go of her search for contamination until it bleeds out into her own family's medical history. She questions the toxic myth of white womanhood and the fear she has been made to feel since her girlhood when traveling alone. And she explores her desire to build a creative life as a queer woman, asking whether such a thing as a meaningful life is possible under capitalism. Ceaselessly curious, uncompromisingly intelligent, and urgently seeking, with Thin Skin Shapland builds thrillingly on her genre-defying debut--"gorgeous, symphonic, tender, and brilliant" (Carmen Machado)--firmly establishing her as one of the sharpest essayists of her generation"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Her knowledge of history and her applied logic are ridiculously flawed. She cancels her Chase card and in doing so harms her credit at a time she and her partner are trying to get a mortgage. She cancels the card because she learns that 200 years ago the company that is now Chase used slave labor. She is then incensed that a lender finds the fact that she has no consistent source of credit makes her a bad credit risk, and is saddened that her decision to cancel her credit card because of something that happened 200 years ago is not celebrated by the lender. I can't hate her because it seems like it would be dreadful to be her. I am going to just make a slightly enhanced version of my last update my review.
The woman can write, but also she is insufferable. I am not buying into the worldview of a White upper-middle class socialist with a shopping addiction who natters on about how chemicals are bad. (Newsflash -- chemicals make up most everything. Some are naturally occurring and some are not. Natural doesn't mean good, so when your partner offers up 100% natural heirloom hemlock with a sprinkling of cyanide for breakfast just say no.) ( )