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Clam Down: A Metamorphosis by Anelise Chen

• Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
• Anelise Chen
• Page: 368
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781984801852
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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In this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life—a transformation fable from an acclaimed 5 Under 35 National Book Foundation honoree. “A marvel and a delight . . . This is a book that will stay with me forever.”—Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters We’ve all heard the story about waking up as a cockroach—but what if a crisis turned you into a clam? After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a “clam” via typo after her mother keeps texting her to “clam down.” The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to “clam down”—to retreat, hide, close up, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to “clam up” when we can’t speak, and to “come out of our shell” when we reemerge, transformed. In order to understand her path, the clam digs into examples of others who have embraced lives of reclusiveness and extremity. Finally, she confronts her own “clam genealogy” to interview her dad, who disappeared for a decade to write a mysterious accounting software called Shell Computing. By excavating his past to better understand his decisions, she learns not only how to forgive him but also how to move on from her own wounds of abandonment and insecurity. Using a genre-defying structure and written in novelistic prose that draws from art, literature, and natural history, Anelise Chen unfolds a complex story of interspecies connectedness, in which humans learn lessons of adaptation and survival from their mollusk kin. While it makes sense in certain situations to retreat behind fortified walls, the choice to do so also exacts a price. What is the price of building up walls? How can one take them back down when they are no longer necessary?

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On its cover, “Clam Down” is billed not as memoir or novel but as a “metamorphosis,” and the word is apt. The story it tells, of emotional .
As I was saying these words, I thought, nah, BS, they do go through .
metamorphosis - it's called puberty And it's so interesting . Thank goodness those hormones calm down and they emerge from their .
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This transformation was of a psychological suffering after losing his job, his self worth, being alienated from his family and society alike.

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