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A Grotesque Animal
- Author
- Amy Lee Lillard
- Narrator
- Avery May
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 25 March 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A Grotesque Animal explores the making, unmaking, and making again of a woman with an undiagnosed disorder. How did a working-class background and a deep-rooted Midwest culture of silence lead to hiding in plain sight for decades? How did sexuality and anger hide the roots of trauma among the women in her family? And what does it mean to be a queer, disabled, aging woman, a descendant of wild but tamed mothers and a survivor of the things patriarchy inflicts?
Through wide-ranging styles and a combination of personal storytelling and cultural analysis, Lillard dissects anger, sexuality, autistic masking, bodies, punk, and female annihilation to create a new picture of modern women.
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Details
- Author
- Amy Lee Lillard
- Narrator
- Avery May
- Duration
- 5 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 March 2025
- ISBN
- 9781696618441
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Memoirs, Coping with autism / Asperger’s, Biography: general
Synopsis
At the age of forty-three, Amy Lee Lillard learned she was autistic. She learned she was part of a community of unseen women who fell through the gaps due to medical bias and social stereotypes.A Grotesque Animal explores the making, unmaking, and making again of a woman with an undiagnosed disorder. How did a working-class background and a deep-rooted Midwest culture of silence lead to hiding in plain sight for decades? How did sexuality and anger hide the roots of trauma among the women in her family? And what does it mean to be a queer, disabled, aging woman, a descendant of wild but tamed mothers and a survivor of the things patriarchy inflicts?Through wide-ranging styles and a combination of personal storytelling and cultural analysis, Lillard dissects anger, sexuality, autistic masking, bodies, punk, and female annihilation to create a new picture of modern women.
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