{"product_id":"this-is-a-story-about-anne-champion-9798990431508","title":"This is a Story About Ghosts: A Memoir of Borderline Personality Disorder","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is lust?\u003cbr\u003eSomething about destruction.\u003cbr\u003eSomething about fear.\u003cbr\u003eSomething about something that hurts deeper than you have words for.\u003cbr\u003eSomething about something that hurt you before you even had words.\u003cbr\u003eYou want a lover who knows that the work of living is struggling to thrive with a blade lodged in your side.\u003cbr\u003eBecause if you show up on his stoop in a trench coat and begin to seductively untie it, he's not going to marvel.\u003cbr\u003eHe's going to ask about that cleaver to your gut.\u003cbr\u003e\"This is my mother,\" you'll explain.\u003cbr\u003eYou'll point to the mangled stump of your thigh and say, \"My dad. He just vanished.\"\u003cbr\u003eThen he'll see the bubbling tar pouring out of your womb, blistering your thighs, enveloping him with steam.\u003cbr\u003eYou'll lick his earlobe, whispering, \"This is my rage.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnne Champion was raised in a home riddled with violence. She bonded with other troubled children of parents who masked dark secrets, causing her to recreate the emotional patterns of her childhood until she felt her only escape was suicide. But a miraculous experience involving a ghost from her past-her first love who committed suicide as a teenager-sets her on a path to re-examine her life and uncover the secrets lurking within people she loved most. As she does, she meets a sociopath who takes her to the origin story: a predatory stalker. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this memoir, Champion recreates the 1990s world of her youth: of hip hop and grunge culture, of the AIDS epidemic and LGBTQ rights, of slut shaming and sexual liberation, of children with mental health problems and a new Prozac nation, and of griefs that carve through our generational traumas like a river threatening flood. As Champion dedicates herself to psychological healing from her past, she stumbles upon a new self awareness of her lifelong mental struggle she couldn't name before: Borderline Personality Disorder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat curses befall abused children? What wreckage can be unearthed in a childhood of drowning? What lessons can be drawn from a descent into the underworld?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Champion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798990431508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e R. R. Bowker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Anne Champion","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46420511883519,"sku":"9798990431508","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c47f2df0-1872-4744-a859-9640f2a8cd28.jpg?v=1734634848","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-is-a-story-about-anne-champion-9798990431508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}