For A Dancer: The Memoir

by Emma J. Stephens

Overview

Brought up in an environment riddled with substance abuse and neglect, Emma has big dreams and little chance of ever reaching them. By the age of fourteen she is on her own, determined to escape the mentality that has crippled her family, but to succeed would mean leaving behind her sister and betraying the only life she’s ever known. From the Virginia countryside to the streets of Paris, through teenage motherhood and higher education, share Emma’s tears and triumphs as she searches for acceptance in an exclusive world and finds love in the most unlikely of places.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013131248
Publisher:	Saint Columba Press
Publication date:	07/26/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	274
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Emma J. Stephens was born and raised on the East Coast, lived in the high country of the Rockies, studied in Europe, and now lives in Los Angeles with her son.

Editorial Reviews

This is unlike any memoir I have ever read. For the first time it gives a shape to the chaotic lives of the Generation Xers now washed up on the shores of the Recession. Mark my words, Stephens is a writer with a future, a distinctive new voice in literature, spare, stunningly honest, and unselfconsciously poetic. This book is to memoir what Bob Dylan was to music: rough and tender, earthy and brilliant, completely original.

Tristine Rainer

Emma J. Stephens has made a remarkable contribution with her initial novel-like memoir that has a promise of being one of the most memorable, and excruciatingly vivid, depictions of a young lady's enduring trek through a modern-day Homeric journey. This story demonstrates the triumphs over truly unimaginable obstacles on the part of a determined, and extraordinarily gifted, upwardly-bound misfit.

Victor Portanova