Begin by Telling: Volume 11 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771666633)

Never forget /
to connect the dots /
This book is an attempt to connect a couple.

In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from early childhood to present day, Remy paints a stark portrait of a spectacle-driven country.

As though channel surfing, we catch glimpses of Desert Storm, the Oklahoma City Bombing, random street violence, the petrochemical industry, small town Deadheads, a toilet with uterus lining in it, the county STD clinic, and missionaries at the front door. Each is shared through language of the body; the sensation of experiencing many of the defining events and moments of a country.

Immersive and utterly compelling, the threads in Begin by Telling nimbly interweave with probing quotes and statistics, demonstrating the importance of personal storytelling, radical empathy, and the necessity of reflecting on society and one's self within that construct.

Author: Meg Remy
ISBN-10: 1771666633
ISBN-13: 9781771666633
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2021
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 04/23/2021