Advance Praise for “A Body in Motion”

“Melissa Flores Anderson’s A Body in Motion grips the heart as well as the mind. For all those who have ever lost sight of their own body as they’ve traversed the worst of the medical industry or rolled with the ups and downs of having a crush, this book is for you. And for those who’ve then stubbornly regained confidence in their body after such misadventures, this book is doubly for you. Absorbing, soft, and incisive, it’s a great read.”

Maud Lavin, author of CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE–a New York Times Notable Book, CLEAN NEW WORLD, and PUSH COMES TO SHOVE

“In her debut chapbook, Melissa Flores Anderson defines her own literary physics with nine pieces of creative non-fiction that are always in motion. Patients push back. Pain pushes in and out. Family histories weave their way throughout. Anderson’s characters’ lives move forward and backward as they try, succeed and fail, defy expectations, and life, perhaps even physics. These are journeys of moving cross country, across continents, to and from colleges, away and to jobs. Each narrative becomes its own equation punctuated with numbers; the counting of prescriptions, degrees, days, prescriptions, diagnosis, homes, pregnancies, losses, family, alternative lives that might have been, and each movement marked in words. These are wholly Anderson’s words, but there’s also a universality on each page as readers take in her stories of movement and see elements of their own lives too. Her memoir is moving in every sense – emotionally, through each word, character and place, and ultimately, the lives lived off the page.”

Amy Barnes, author of CHILD CRAFT

A review of “A Body in Motion” in Bending Genres by François Bereaud

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