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This Is a Game I Play chronicles Marie Manilla's coming of age in a large Italian-Catholic family in Huntington, West Virginia, during the volatile 1960s and 1970s. Traveling into adulthood and from Texas, to Iowa, and back to West Virginia, Manilla is clear-eyed about the games she engaged in for attention or survival. She confronts her implicit biases and failings, her struggles navigating life with an anxiety disorder, and her ambivalence toward gender roles and expectations for women, such as being caregiver to aging parents, including one with dementia.
Woven throughout are games others play. Especially troubling are the countless ways girls and women—Manilla included—have fallen prey to the wicked games of predatory boys and men, as well as the brutal games the dominant culture has played with people of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and poor folks who live in areas where natural resources are more highly valued than human life. Offering a unique archive of urban Appalachia, Manilla's essays not only serve as reflections on the self and society but urge readers to consider the games they (un)knowingly play, too.
Contents
Imprinting_x000D_
Wicked Little Games_x000D_
The Crushing Machine_x000D_
Night Terrors_x000D_
Little Houses_x000D_
Souvenirs_x000D_
The Spider_x000D_
Trance_x000D_
Sasquatch_x000D_
Bimbo and Carlos and Bags_x000D_
White Wisps_x000D_
Arrows_x000D_
Cage Rattlers_x000D_
Madness_x000D_
Warball_x000D_
Pyro_x000D_
Dangerous Men_x000D_
Attention Seeking_x000D_
Geometry and Beethoven's 5th_x000D_
Metal on Metal_x000D_
Baby Groupies_x000D_
Rocky Horror_x000D_
Painted Ladies_x000D_
Fainting Goats_x000D_
Sentinels_x000D_
A Tiny Nick_x000D_
Au Salon de la Rue des Moulins_x000D_
Blue Willow_x000D_
Yellow Dog_x000D_
Expat_x000D_
Mother Tongue_x000D_
Michael Jackson, Slave Days, and Magic Skin_x000D_
Bigfoot_x000D_
Here is a List of Wounds_x000D_
Orange Cat and White One_x000D_
Michelangelo and Yellow Dog_x000D_
Superman in the Leewards_x000D_
Fish Scales_x000D_
Fish Eyes_x000D_
Game. Set. Match._x000D_
Never Marry a Wounded Bird_x000D_
Learning to Write_x000D_
Tucking Tail_x000D_
Tricking the Dog_x000D_
Hot Baths and Claude Debussy_x000D_
This is a Game I Play_x000D_
The Leonids_x000D_
His Lips were So, So Thin_x000D_
Dead Reckoning_x000D_
Ephemera_x000D_
Power_x000D_
Trusting Lessons_x000D_
Bog People_x000D_
Mothering_x000D_
Yellow Dog in Gay Paree_x000D_
Sixth Avenue Hos_x000D_
The Trans Woman in the Library_x000D_
Powerless_x000D_
Walt Whitman on the Metro_x000D_
Sundowning_x000D_
Everything Must Go_x000D_
Buried Treasure_x000D_
Poker with the Boys_x000D_
Packing Light_x000D_
Last Statement_x000D_
Little Boxes_x000D_
Guilt Body_x000D_
Home_x000D_
The Whole World in a Day_x000D_
Carnage_x000D_
Acknowledgments_x000D_
Publication Credits_x000D_
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