{"product_id":"red-girl-jumping-kim-merrill-9781969885013","title":"Red Girl Jumping: an experimental memoir written by memory","description":"RED GIRL JUMPING is a fable-like memoir by Kim Merrill, a New York playwright. It is the\u003cbr\u003estory of Kimberly, a grown woman, and Red Girl, a shard of memory trapped in her mind, who is\u003cbr\u003ealso the narrator of this spellbinding story of dissociation and healing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Red Girl tells it, her job is to protect Kimberly from her secret of childhood incest. She does\u003cbr\u003eso with mission-like zeal until Kimberly reaches her thirties. Then-to her shame-Red Girl\u003cbr\u003eunleashes a torrent that upends Kimberly's life. When Kimberly is fifty, tired of her pain, she\u003cbr\u003ehauls her diaries up a hill to set them all on fire. Red Girl turns herself to ash and tries to fly\u003cbr\u003eaway-but where can memory go? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAshy Red Girl falls from the sky and re-enters Kimberly's brain. Longing for Kimberly's love, \u003cbr\u003eshe hatches a plan to give them peace: \"Write how we split in two! Un-fear the invisible heart!\"\u003cbr\u003eKimberly hands it to Red Girl: \"You're the one to write this.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCommitting to the task, Red Girl summons the occupants of Kimberly's dungeon mind -\u003cbr\u003eincluding the Laughing Corpse, a hero made of bones who wants to silence them all. In a voice\u003cbr\u003estraddling humor and desperation, she writes of splitting from Kimberly, of un-forgetting, of\u003cbr\u003elosing family, and generates a life-and-death struggle between her loyalty to the Laughing\u003cbr\u003eCorpse and the pull of Kimberly's need to be a unified self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Merrill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1969885017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781969885013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jef Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Kim Merrill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454356992255,"sku":"9781969885013","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3adec38f-aac4-4676-ad04-99ff561758f7.jpg?v=1777305730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-girl-jumping-kim-merrill-9781969885013","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}