Spare Author|Roque Salas Rivera That's what your grandmother always

That's what your grandmother always said

THE CHAIRS also manifests the poet's and the painter's work "in tandem" as presented in numerous exhibitions over 30 years

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Writing a book seemed like a Pheidippidean task

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Spare Author|Roque Salas Rivera That's what your grandmother alwaysSpare is a memoir that weaves personal history, research, found documents, and present day narrative. Some recurring sections are epistolary, some concern a single character, others are found correspondence. The book incorporates the lexicon of online forums, the history of eugenics in Maine, facts about the region's drug epidemic, and internal dialogue. Sections braid and layer, providing texture and context to complex themes that include personal