When you learn the alphabet /
"Kendra Allen's first collection of essays When You Learn the Alphabet--at its core--is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between father an...
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction.
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