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by Beth Alvarado (Author)
Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and Longlisted for PEN America's Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Anxious Attachments takes us through the life stages of a woman living in the American Southwest from the 1970s to the present.
In a series of intimate essays, Alvarado moves from adolescence into adulthood while grappling with attachments that develop through her family and her ties to the wider world around her while she works as a teacher, writer, and caregiver. Though written from a single woman's perspective, these essays invite us to reflect on the many roles women play and the social factors that touch upon them. Alvarado's essays portray a broad world of experience, reflecting on class, race, and poverty in America with emotional depth and sensitivity.
Author Biography
Beth Alvarado is the author of four books: Anxious Attachments, Julian at the Borderlands, Anthropologies: A Family Memoir, and Not a Matter of Love and other stories. She has an MFA from the University of Arizona and an MA in Literature from Stanford University. Her essays and stories have been published in many fine journals including Guernica, The Sun, River Teeth, The Southern Review, Cimarron Review, Third Coast, and Ploughshares. Her essays have twice been chosen as Notable by Best American Essays. Beth is on the editorial board of a new contemporary Chicanx anthology sponsored by Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts and the Black Earth Institute. Beth lived with her late husband and two children in the Sonoran Borderlands for much of her life. She now lives in Bend, Oregon, where she teaches prose at the OSU-Cascades Low Residency MFA Program.
