Contents: Notes of a native son--Nobody knows my name--The fire next time--No name in the street--The devil finds work--Other essays.

Local author. Title on cover: Early poems, revised.

Local author.

Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.

"You fall down. You get hurt. You get up again. You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and "an unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously...

A collection of articles, essays, poems, and other writings which shows that the author known for her Little House books was a prolific and talented writer all her life.