Breaking Points

By Chelsea Stickle

In thirteen slick, innovative, and gut-wrenching flashes, the young women and girls in Breaking Points, the debut chapbook from Chelsea Stickle, hit the walls around them-- walls constructed by family, friends, significant others, and insidious cultural perils. " Stranger danger doesn't disappear when you start wearing a push-up bra," notes one of Stickle's pre-teen narrators when confronted by a leering threat that will forever sever her path from that of her best friend. In " How to Make Stock with Thanksgiving Leftovers," a queer young woman takes us through a wry recipe for boiling turkey stock and raging against small-minded relatives and the traumas they inflict.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625570198
• ISBN13: 9781625570192
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"