I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

by Lynn Melnick

When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural Tennessee. Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnick--a poet, urbanite, and daughter of a middle-class Jewish family--needed to be. Because Melnick, like the musician she adores, is a survivor.In this bracing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477322671
• ISBN13: 9781477322673
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"