{"product_id":"red-girl-jumping-an-experimental-memoir-written-by-memory-paperback","title":"Red Girl Jumping: an experimental memoir written by memory - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKim Merrill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRED GIRL JUMPING is a fable-like memoir by Kim Merrill, a New York playwright. It is the\u003cbr\u003estory of Kimberly, a grown woman, and Red Girl, a shard of memory trapped in her mind, who is\u003cbr\u003ealso the narrator of this spellbinding story of dissociation and healing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Red Girl tells it, her job is to protect Kimberly from her secret of childhood incest. She does\u003cbr\u003eso with mission-like zeal until Kimberly reaches her thirties. Then-to her shame-Red Girl\u003cbr\u003eunleashes a torrent that upends Kimberly's life. When Kimberly is fifty, tired of her pain, she\u003cbr\u003ehauls her diaries up a hill to set them all on fire. Red Girl turns herself to ash and tries to fly\u003cbr\u003eaway-but where can memory go? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAshy Red Girl falls from the sky and re-enters Kimberly's brain. Longing for Kimberly's love, \u003cbr\u003eshe hatches a plan to give them peace: \"Write how we split in two! Un-fear the invisible heart!\"\u003cbr\u003eKimberly hands it to Red Girl: \"You're the one to write this.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCommitting to the task, Red Girl summons the occupants of Kimberly's dungeon mind -\u003cbr\u003eincluding the Laughing Corpse, a hero made of bones who wants to silence them all. In a voice\u003cbr\u003estraddling humor and desperation, she writes of splitting from Kimberly, of un-forgetting, of\u003cbr\u003elosing family, and generates a life-and-death struggle between her loyalty to the Laughing\u003cbr\u003eCorpse and the pull of Kimberly's need to be a unified self.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45966423294149,"sku":"9781969885013","price":32.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/LreRFhgWRQ9781969885013.webp?v=1773691288","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/red-girl-jumping-an-experimental-memoir-written-by-memory-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}