{"product_id":"let-me-count-the-ways-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTomás Q. Morín\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2023 Vulgar Genius Nonfiction Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Growing up in a small town in South Texas in the eighties and nineties, poverty, machismo, and drug addiction were everywhere for Tomás Q. Morín. He was around four or five years old when he first remembers his father cooking heroin, and he recalls many times he and his mother accompanied his father while he was on the hunt for more, Morín in the back seat keeping an eye out for unmarked cop cars, just as his father taught him. It was on one of these drives that, for the first time, he blinked in a way that evolution hadn't intended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet Me Count the Ways\u003c\/i\u003e is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability. Morín's compulsions were a way to hold onto his love for his family in uncertain times until OCD became a prison he struggled for decades to escape. Tender, unflinching, and even funny, this vivid portrait of South Texas life challenges our ideas about fatherhood, drug abuse, and mental illness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTomás Q. Morín\u003c\/b\u003e is on the faculty at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eMachete\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePatient Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e A Larger Country\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the coeditor with Mari L'Esperance of the anthology \u003ci\u003eComing Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThreepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a National Endowment of the Arts fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692343267391,"sku":"9781496226495","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/874fd07177c84ae482fa314798c43447.webp?v=1764995147","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/let-me-count-the-ways-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}