ATOMIC:A Gen X Memoir of Fractured Family and Altered StateS

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set in rural Maine and NYC, Atomic is a gen x ode to the Shifting mental superpowers that both protected and broke us in the landscape of the pre-millenium. Mikel Jollett's Hollywood ParK Meets T. Kira Madden's Long Live the tribe of fatherless girls in this father-daughter coming of age story characterized by the cold war, neurodivergence, and punk rock. In Narrative form, it explores how Robin used a non-traditional, phenomenal way of processing the world around Her—including synesthesia, shifting worlds, invention, and switching dimensions—to navigate a family life shattered by divorce and Her father’s PTSD, whereby She was eventually able to access Her wholeness as artist, musician, and daughter.

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“I’d follow this narrator anywhere. Incredible story. All in.”—Lidia Yuknavitch