West Virginia University Press
One morning in January 2006, Rachel Weaver, a 20-something aspiring writer who was about to start grad school in Colorado, woke up to a hurricane; except the hurricane was whirling within her own body. Here’s how Weaver describes that moment:
I opened my eyes to the walls of the bedroom folding and sliding and picking up speed.
I … pressed my body hard against the mattress in search of the center, the still place. Anyplace.
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