Raechel Anne Jolie - Rust Belt Femme

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Praise for Rust Belt Femme

Rust Belt Femme is a brilliant mix tape of a memoir. Thismiraculous little book manages to plumb the depths of poverty,trauma, punk rock, maternal devotion, young love, and queer

A sharp coming-of-age portrait.

identity in language that is lyric and precise. I was blown away.

Kirkus Reviews

Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak and co-creator of Dear Sugar

Raechel Anne Jolie was four when her father

Compassionate and political, queer and punk and angry, came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb, and was hit by a Rust Belt Femme shows with grace and grit how community drunk driver. After the accident, she and her can save your life.

mother struggled: they were evicted, went

Michel e Tea, author of How to Grow Up: A Memoir days without utilities, and took their pain out on one another, even as they clung to each other with ferocious need.

Raechel Anne Jolies work has been featured

With Rust Belt Femme, Raechel Anne Jolie unveils a crystal ball, In this fiercely original debut memoir, Jolie in Teen Vogue, In These Times, Bitch

releasing a vivid love letter to her past, her mother, herself, and charts her journey from Ohio poverty and Magazine, and other outlets. She holds a PhD

to Cleveland. Her stunning writing alone makes me want to childhood trauma to life as a proudly femme, from the University of Minnesota, and lives in become a better writer.

queer PhD. Her working-class Cleveland exurb Minneapolis. She grew up in and around

was a world defined by mentheir demands

Iliana Regan, author of Burn the Place Cleveland, Ohio.

and their absencebut Jolie narrates a life made both joyous and safe by women:

Jacket design: David Wilson

As glowing and gritty as the Ohio lightning bugs Jolie writes Interior design: Meredith Pangrace

about with such lyricism, this book is pure working-class queer

I was surrounded almost entirely by resilient Author photo: Julia Mary Photography

women. My own coven of disembodied

femme magic. We all need more of this work.

Lampryridae, those lightning bugs fighting Belt Publishing

Shannon Weber, author of Feminism in Minutes with persistent glow against the odds. They www.beltpublishing.com

drank beer and swore. Their clothes were too Printed in the U.S.A.

big or too small. Many of them were tattooed.

And always, always, in their glorious excess, they showed up.

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mill smoke of Northeast Ohio. Rust Belt Femme is the story of how these twin foundationsrural Ohio poverty and alternative cultureformed one womans identify.

$26.00

Praise for Rust Belt Femme

Rust Belt Femme is a brilliant mix tape of a memoir. Thismiraculous little book manages to plumb the depths of poverty,trauma, punk rock, maternal devotion, young love, and queer

A sharp coming-of-age portrait.

identity in language that is lyric and precise. I was blown away.

Kirkus Reviews

Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak and co-creator of Dear Sugar

Raechel Anne Jolie was four when her father

Compassionate and political, queer and punk and angry, came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb, and was hit by a Rust Belt Femme shows with grace and grit how community drunk driver. After the accident, she and her can save your life.

mother struggled: they were evicted, went

Michel e Tea, author of How to Grow Up: A Memoir days without utilities, and took their pain out on one another, even as they clung to each other with ferocious need.

Raechel Anne Jolies work has been featured

With Rust Belt Femme, Raechel Anne Jolie unveils a crystal ball, In this fiercely original debut memoir, Jolie in Teen Vogue, In These Times, Bitch

releasing a vivid love letter to her past, her mother, herself, and charts her journey from Ohio poverty and Magazine, and other outlets. She holds a PhD

to Cleveland. Her stunning writing alone makes me want to childhood trauma to life as a proudly femme, from the University of Minnesota, and lives in become a better writer.

queer PhD. Her working-class Cleveland exurb Minneapolis. She grew up in and around

was a world defined by mentheir demands

Iliana Regan, author of Burn the Place Cleveland, Ohio.

and their absencebut Jolie narrates a life made both joyous and safe by women:

Jacket design: David Wilson

As glowing and gritty as the Ohio lightning bugs Jolie writes Interior design: Meredith Pangrace

about with such lyricism, this book is pure working-class queer

I was surrounded almost entirely by resilient Author photo: Julia Mary Photography

women. My own coven of disembodied

femme magic. We all need more of this work.

Lampryridae, those lightning bugs fighting Belt Publishing

Shannon Weber, author of Feminism in Minutes with persistent glow against the odds. They www.beltpublishing.com

drank beer and swore. Their clothes were too Printed in the U.S.A.