· Elissa Washuta, My Body Is a Book of Rules About Us Emily Books is a project that publishes, publicizes, and celebrates the best work of transgressive writers . · My Body is a Book of Rules. by Elissa Washuta. Reviewed By Samantha Claire Updegrave. November 18th, In My Body is a Book of Rules, Elissa Washuta delivers a coming-of-age memoir in a succession of linked essays that mirror the rapid cycling of her bipolar brain. She pulls readers into the world of a young woman as she struggles to reconcile her mixed Native and White Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. My Body Is a Book of Rules White Magic “White Magic is magnificent.” —Kristen Arnett Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists. Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends.
Elissa Washuta lays herself bare and examines her experiences with a keen eye for emotion and human fallibility. All of the topics in My Body Is a Book of Rules, ranging from mental illness to consent and sexual violence, carry such importance despite society's stigma. "Elissa Washuta is an extraordinarily original and gifted writer, and My Body Is a Book of Rules is an extraordinarily original and often brilliant book. Its formal innovations are in the service of a sustained and powerful investigation of body in relation to mind, and body in relation to culture."—. Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a writer of personal essays and memoir. She is the author of two books, Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award.
Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. Following her feats performed in My Body Is a Book of Rules and Starvation Mode, The Conjurer Elissa Washuta returns. With a Series of her Original Experiments, Incomprehensible Mysterious Surprises, and a Display of Fourth Dimensional Wonders. in her book. My Body Is a Book of Rules White Magic “White Magic is magnificent.” —Kristen Arnett Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists. Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends.
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