Allie Rowbottom
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Aesthetica
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2022
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Jell-O Girls: A Family History
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2018
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Suicide: An Anthology
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2023
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Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe
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MADWOMAN is masterful, a literary thriller about motherhood and domestic violence, the latter a topic too often sensationalized (ahem Colleen Hoover) or buried altogether, our culture ever wary of confronting the ways in which we fail women, generati ...more | |
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WE WERE THE UNIVERSE is absolutely stunning, a true testament to the power of prose, a gauntlet thrown, a portal to a girlhood gone by, a portal to motherhood in all its glory and mundanity, its trips to the park with snacks packed into the belly of ...more | |
“Maybe she’s a natural beauty, an untouched beauty. The sales pitch for every powder, cream, procedure. But there’s always a consequence, some side effect that keeps away the promised miracle. Acne from pore-clogging foundation. Asymmetry from filler injected willy-nilly. Body dysmorphia from the asymmetry caused by the filler, which even when dissolved leaves your skin stretched out and floppy. It’s the same with pills: Vicodin cuts the pain, but then you can’t shit;”
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“I had the privileges attached to health and youth and whiteness. And a wide open something I mistook for beauty. I imagine it now as an invisible mark, an absence where a father went, a fear of who I’d be without a mother. She had always been sick, and even when I pushed her away, even as I tried to be different, I knew to fear her loss. I am responsible; I am not at fault.”
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“Natural is better than prosthetic. Natural is moral. Natural connotes a certain kind of woman, a peaceful wise-woman, a woman like my mother.”
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