{"product_id":"otherwise-essays-9781637680728","title":"Otherwise: Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003e A personal lyrical essay collection by a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I am a butterfly at half-mast. Muscles coiled like springs. I have not unwound yet,\" writes Julie Marie Wade in \u003ci\u003eOtherwise\u003c\/i\u003e. In this series of intimate, braided essays written throughout her 30s, Wade traces her own unwinding and becoming through probing lyricism. As a daughter, lover, lesbian, and writer, she invites readers on a journey of self-discovery framed by memory, literature, and popular culture. Touching and tender, empathic and insightful, \u003ci\u003eOtherwise \u003c\/i\u003erevels in its author's self-acceptance at the threshold of mid-life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie Marie Wade\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1979 in Seattle, teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami, and lives in Dania Beach, Florida. She is the author of many books of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including \u003ci\u003eWishbone: A Memoir in Fractures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmall Fires: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Postage Due: Poems \u0026amp; Prose Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was Straight\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCatechism: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e SIX: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJust an Ordinary Woman Breathing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSkirted: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. With Denise Duhamel, she wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose\u003c\/i\u003e, and with Brenda Miller, \u003ci\u003eTelephone: Essays in Two Voices\u003c\/i\u003e. Wade is a winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Autumn House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645248114962,"sku":"9781637680728","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_16e37a8e-7953-4463-acbe-bed082667d5f.jpg?v=1733145214","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/otherwise-essays-9781637680728","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}