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Penny Guisinger was not always attracted to women. In Shift she recounts formative relationships with women and men, including the marriage that produced her two children and ultimately ended in part due to her affair with her now-wife. Beginning her story as straight and ending as queer, she struggles to make sense of how her identity changed so profoundly while leaving her feeling like the same person she's always been. While covering pivotal periods of her life, including previous relationships and raising her children across the chasm of divorce, Guisinger reaches for quantum physics, music theory, planetary harmonics, palmistry, and more to interrogate her experiences. This personal story plays out against the backdrop of the national debate on same-sex marriage, in rural, easternmost Maine, where Guisinger watched her neighbors vote against the validity of her family.
Shift examines sexual and romantic fluidity while wrestling with the ways past and present mingle rather than staying in linear narratives. Under scrutiny, Guisinger's sense of her own identity becomes like a Mobius strip or Penrose triangle-an optical illusion that challenges the dimensions and possibilities of the world.
Contents
Author's Note
Shift and Back Up
Part 1
Imperfect Rings
We Were Just Rehearsing
Bonking into Each Other in the Dark
Before There Was a Woman
I Was a Good Girlfriend
After Tall Probably Gay Steve, Third Steve I Didn't Love Back, and a Marc
We Are All at the Edge
Provincetown I
Not Not a Tenant
Untying the Knot
Part 2
The Love Poetry of Food
Closer to Fine
Things You Don't Know
Pulling Out the Stops
Gay Parties
Harmony of the Spheres
Quantum Music
Tonal Regions
Rose Garden
The Encyclopedia of Good Mothers
Please Don't Notice Me
Earth, Wind, and Fire
Counterfactuals
Why We Got Divorced
Coming Out
Pink Capos at the Lobster Party
Provincetown II
The Largest Canyon on Earth
Breakdown
Is This Parenting?
Part 3
Tight Margins and Powerful Strangers
Across the Bridge
I Dreamed I Was at the Funeral of an Activist
Waxwings
Squaring the Circle
Impossible Objects
Acknowledgments
