Alice Anderson. (2017). Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Alice Anderson. 2017. Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Alice Anderson, Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

Alice Anderson. Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

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   • bioText: ALICE ANDERSON's work has appeared in literary journals including Agni and New Letters and is featured in anthologies such as American Poetry and On The Verge. Her second collection of poetry, The Watermark, contains three Pushcart Prize–nominated poems; her first, Human Nature, was published to critical acclaim. The recipient of The Plum Review Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Prize, and The Great Lakes Colleges Best First Book Prize, she also received the Haven Foundation Grant from Stephen King.
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The incredible true story of one woman's journey to relocate the place inside herself where strength, hope, and personal truth reside.
After Hurricane Katrina, Alice Anderson has returned home to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home she'd carefully cultivated for her husband, Dr. Liam Rivers, one of the community's highly respected doctors.
But in the wake of this natural disaster, a more terrifying challenge emerges as Liam's mental health spirals out of control, culminating in a violent attack at knifepoint, from which Alice is saved by their three-year-old son. Afraid for her life, she flees with her children.
What ensues is an epic battle—emotional, psychological, spiritual, and legal—for her children's welfare, for self-preservation, and ultimately for redemption. It's an unrelenting battle that persists even as life goes on, finally coming full circle when the same son who saved Alice ten years before endures an eerily-familiar violent encounter at his father's hands. Yet even as she confronts the harsh realities of high-powered Southern lawyers and an inadequate legal system, Alice forges a new life with her blossoming children and an ultimate reclamation of her true self.

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     "Anderson is a gifted writer who vividly describes both settings and emotions. Her powerful story gives voice and hope to women caught in similarly terrible conditions."

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   • source: Mississippi Magazine
   • content: "This chilling memoir shows that storms in the mind can be as devastating as nature's storms."
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   • source: Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children
   • content: "I love this book with my entire body. Alice Anderson's Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away is nothing short of a body and soul retrieval. Fearlessly diving down into the heat and mythos of Mississippi, she unflinchingly tells the truth about what happens when the one you love tries to kill you and your child. I am astonished at how this fiercely beautiful song can arise from such wreckage of violence and lies. In page after riveting page, we're reminded how mothers love their children with ferociousness, and how that love might take shape in the child who saves her life. Maybe, by refusing to surrender our bodies, we are always saving our own lives. Maybe our songs are worth fighting for. Some Bright Morning, I'll Fly Away is that necessary song."
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     Starred review from August 1, 2017
     Anderson is a survivor. When she's gravely injured in a motorcycle accident, she remakes herself into a fashion model. When she's sexually abused by her father, she expresses her pain in poetry. And when she's physically and emotionally abused by her husband, a respected doctor, she fights back. In this courageous memoir, Anderson's life in Mississippi is turned upside down by Hurricane Katrina. Although her house is one of the few that remain standing, her marriage is finally over. Her husband (who suffers from OCD and alcoholism) has become increasingly demanding, and her struggle to keep peace and protect her three children ends in a devastating beating. She files for divorce and custody of the children and then settles in for a long battle. Anderson is brutally honest in her depiction of the abuse she hid for years behind her proper southern-wife facade and upfront about the obstacles she faces in the courts as she tries to prove that her husband is dangerous. She also expresses her yearning to reclaim herself through her work. Anderson is a gifted writer who vividly describes both settings and emotions. Her powerful story gives voice and hope to women caught in similarly terrible conditions.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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After Hurricane Katrina, Alice Anderson has returned home to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home she'd carefully cultivated for her husband, Dr. Liam Rivers, one of the community's highly respected doctors.
But in the wake of this natural disaster, a more terrifying challenge emerges as Liam's mental health spirals out of control, culminating in a violent attack at knifepoint, from which Alice is saved by their three-year-old son. Afraid for her life, she flees with her children.
What ensues is an epic battle—emotional, psychological, spiritual, and legal—for her children's welfare, for self-preservation, and ultimately for redemption. It's an unrelenting battle that persists even as life goes on, finally coming full circle when the same son who saved Alice ten years...

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