{ "item_title" : "Lights On, Rats Out", "item_author" : [" Cree Lefavour "], "item_description" : "A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2017Shockingly intimate.-People MagazineThis gritty account of a woman's struggle with self-abuse describes nearly gothic suffering. It is also a love story about a dedicated and gifted analyst and his difficult but equally gifted patient. Courageous and unsettling, LeFavour's memoir is infused with humor and wry insight as well as pain.--New York TimesEloquent, irreverent, graphically precise.--VultureAs a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm. Her body was a canvas of cruelty; each scar a mark of pride and shame. The thrill of meeting with her psychiatrist, Dr. Adam N. Kohl--whose relationship with Cree is at once sustaining and paralyzing--comes to be the only bright spot in her days. A memoir in a category of its own (Dani Shapiro), Lights On, Rats Out brings us closely into these years, recounting a fiercely bright and independent woman's charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs.Cree LeFavour uses the force of her blisteringly stark, mesmerizingly self-aware prose to not only unearth her own demons, but also equip the reader with the language to articulate our own as well.--Harper's Bazaar.comA brave and honest memoir...sad and piercingly smart, making for an unforgettable read.--BookreporterStartling, beautiful language reminiscent of Plath.-- Booklist (starred review)Searingly eloquent.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Riveting.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/80/212/805/080212805X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "20.00", "online_price" : "20.00", "our_price" : "20.00", "club_price" : "20.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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