{"product_id":"darkroom-a-family-exposure-paperback","title":"Darkroom: A Family Exposure - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJill Christman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLynda J. Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eMatthew McKee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarkroom: A Family Exposure\u003c\/i\u003e is Jill Christman's gripping, funny, and wise account of her first thirty years. Although her story runs the gamut of dramatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse, accidental death, and psychological trauma, Christman's poignant memoir is much more than a litany of horrors; instead, it is an open-eyed, wide-hearted, and good-humored look at a life worth surviving. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a shifting narrative of text and photographs, Christman explores the intersection of image and memory and considers the ways photographs force us to rework our original memories. \u003ci\u003eDarkroom\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turning and disturbing journey that begins with an older brother's near fatal burning and progresses through a counterculture childhood in which her free-spirited mother moves the family to an isolated mountaintop. The story advances into an adolescence of eating disorders and barely remembered sex, slams into a young adulthood of love, literature, drugs, death, and therapists, and ends soon after a beloved uncle bleeds to death in a federal prison while serving a ten-year sentence for growing marijuana. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNever sentimental, Jill Christman is brutally honest and surprisingly funny. She deftly blends narrative, quoted materials, her uncle's letters, and her father's photography to create a family saga that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJill Christman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two memoirs, a forthcoming collection--\u003ci\u003eIf This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Nebraska Press, 2022)--and essays in magazines such as \u003ci\u003eBrevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIron Horse Literary Review. \u003c\/i\u003eA 2020 NEA Fellow and senior editor for \u003ci\u003eRiver Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, \u003c\/i\u003eshe teaches at Ball State University. Visit her at www.jillchristman.com and on Twitter @jill_christman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52445959979315,"sku":"9780820341743","price":36.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NEFZcFd0WUFaU0R6SXZsdHdMenpwUT09.webp?v=1758974264","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/darkroom-a-family-exposure-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}