Counting Bones de Ellen Anderson Penno

Counting Bones: Anatomy of Love Lost and Found

Ellen Anderson Penno

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2024

PROLOGUE

PART I: THE SKELETON

the bones of the story

I: 1. The Ribs: the rib speaks of love and healing

I: 2. The Hand: thankful for touch and strength

I: 3. The Foot: step, rest, step, rest, repeat, repeat, repeat

PART II: THE BLOOD

a little blood goes a long way

II: 1. The Heart: breaking, bleeding, beating

II: 2. Surface Marking: evidence of buried truth

II: 3. The Cavity: falling through nothing

PART III: EMBRYOLOGY

origins of a finished product

III: 1. Rudiments: starting from scratch

III: 2. Chronological Tables: strict schedules wait for no one

III: 3. Maturation: "the child is the father of the man" - Wordsworth

PART IV: MUSCLES AND FASCIE

heavy lifting

IV: 1. Dissection: unburied truth

IV: 2. Deep Fascia: but for fascia we would crumble to bits

IV: 3. Actions: you can run (and run) but cannot hide

PART V: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

flight, flee, freeze, or frenzy

V: 1. The Hemispheres: which is smarter, head or heart?

V: 2. Cerebellum: balancing is easy until it's not

V: 3. The Sympathetic Nerve: put on your own oxygen mask before helping others

PART VI: ORGANS OF VOICE AND RESPIRATION

you cannot speak if you do not breathe

VI: 1. The Larynx: a finite number of words to speak?

VI: 2. False Vocal Cords: things are not always what they seem

VI: 3. True Vocal Cords: when you find truth, you find strength

PART VII: ORGANS OF SPECIAL SENSE

the eyes of the soul give the clearest vision

VII: 1. True Skin: it's what's underneath that counts

VII: 2. The Labyrinth: equilibrium is a superpower

VII: 3 The Eyes: the problem of hindsight

EPILOGUE

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"Counting Bones is a book about grief told not obliquely, but head-on. With truth steady at her side and earth-anchored clarity, Anderson Penno masters the fine line between self-pity and self-glorification as she traces grief's path: the initial strike of near annihilating power, then its expansion to permeate all aspects of one's life before it begins to slowly, not lessen, but to shapeshift, transforming both itself and the writer. But Counting Bones is also a good story, a coming-of-age chronicle that will hold its readers as they marvel over the courage and resilience of an indefatigable, multi-gifted young woman." -Sharon Butala, award winning author of Leaving Wisdom and Where I Live Now

"Counting Bones begins as a tale of a college romance rich with hiking, mountain climbing, skiing and the special sensation that comes from finding a soulmate for the first time but shifts into a complex tale of grief as a life-long visitor. The author loses her beloved to an avalanche on Mt. Baker in Washington just as she's finishing college and starting medical school. Her memoir reads like a symphony-an "Ode to Grief" instead of joy, but just as nuanced and beautiful. "Ian and Ian's death are like two different people," she reflects, as the reader follows her through her complex reaction to the sudden trauma even as she faces the medical training required to handle trauma in others. If you loved Joan Didion's Year of Magical Thinking, buy this book." -Mary Collins, author of At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces (Beacon Press)

"Ellen Anderson Penno's memoir is an anatomy of precision and procedural beauty. Counting Bones takes the reader on a sure and steady climb, unexpected descent into loss, and through an ill-timed academic crucible. Anderson Penno pairs the rhythm and language of rock climbing with the nomenclative framework of Gray's Anatomy. In an introspective writing style that juxtaposes the creative with memoir Anderson Penno manages, in unexpected moments, to belay time, depart from the quantitative, and bring to light poetic concerns of the broken hearted." -Darcy Tamayose, award-winning author of Ezra's Ghosts

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