I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton by Lynn Melnick

I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Lynn Melnick

280 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir music emotional reflective medium-paced

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The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full, she was 14 years old, in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital, waiting to be admitted to a drug rehab program. Already in her young life as a Jewish teen in the 1980s, she h...

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Moods

reflective 64%
dark 50%
emotional 50%
inspiring 50%
informative 35%
sad 28%
hopeful 21%
funny 14%
challenging 7%
lighthearted 7%

Pace

medium 76%
fast 15%
slow 7%

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