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This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal by Octavia Bright

“I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn’t make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though, of course, in some ways it was,” writes Octavia Bright in , a memoir that follows her journey, so it’s little surprise that literary, art and feminist history are woven throughout this searing book. Imbued with wit and insight, it will make you think about the risks you take, and the mysterious forces that push us all to seek out danger at times.

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