Make It Scream, Make It Burn

Name: Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Author: Leslie Jamison

by Leslie Jamison

Essays on suffering, violence, and endurance in literature and lived experience

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Leslie Jamison

American novelist and essayist whose The Empathy Exams is a celebrated collection of essays about illness, empathy, and female experience. Make It Scream, Make It Burn is her second essay collection. The Recovering is a hybrid memoir about alcoholism. She is one of the most admired young American literary voices.

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