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What You Become in Flight: A Memoir
Written by Ellen O'Connell Whittet
Narrated by Hillary Huber
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This raw debut memoir explores the silent suffering of the ballerina and finds it emblematic of the violence that women quietly shoulder every day.
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Ellen O'Connell Whittet
Ellen O'Connell Whittet is an essayist and a lecturer. Winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award, her work has appeared in Vulture, Paris Review, Buzzfeed, Teen Vogue, and Prairie Schooner.
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