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Curious Atoms: A History with Physics (chapbook)
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Reviews
“These essays are sculpted—I’m tempted to say forged (so necessary is each sentence, even each word, one feels). Yet in the midst of work so exorbitantly cooked, the raw springs of the felt occasion drive the essayist through her thought-projects. I loved being in the company of this mind.”
- David Lazar
A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World
This beautifully written exploration of “the unusual abilities of those who are differently wired” (Psychology Today) received a Ken Book Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness for outstanding literary contribution to the world of mental health.
In this fascinating literary memoir, Susanne Antonetta draws on her personal experience as a manic-depressive, as well as interviews with people with multiple personality disorder, autism, and other neurological conditions, to form an intimate meditation on mental “disease.” She traces the many capabilities–the visual consciousness of an autistic, for example, or the metaphoric consciousness of a manic-depressive–that underlie these and other mental “disabilities.”
A stunning portrait of how the world shapes itself in minds that are profoundly different from the norm, A Mind Apart urges readers to look beyond the concept of cures to the gifts inherent in many neuroatypical conditions. Employing a wide-ranging approach to her subject, Antonetta provides a rare glimpse into the wildly varying landscapes of human thought, perception, and emotion.
Awards
Winner of the 2006 NAMI/Ken Johnson Award
Reviews
“Antonetta not only warns us against a world impoverished by the absence of the future Van Goghs, O'Keeffes, Virginia Woolfs, and William Blakes, she suggests that given the slipperiness of consciousness, and the fine lines between creativity, adaptability, and madness, the rest of us might not be as neurotypical as we think.”
- Pam Houston, O: The Oprah Magazine
“Once again, Antonetta alters our perception of ourselves and our place in the biosphere as she makes unexpected connections, articulates provocative observations, and leaves readers pondering a startling question: Is neurodiversity as essential to life as biodiversity?”
- Donna Seaman, Booklist
Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
Body Toxic is an environmental memoir: A harrowing story of an immigrant family in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey–a hauntingly beautiful, hauntingly compromised landscape. With incalculable sadness, Susanne Antonetta presents families lost in the midst of the American dream.
Awards
New York Times Notable Book for 2001
American Book Award for 2001
One of the ten best memoirs of the year, Amazon.com
One of Library Journal‘s ten best science books of 2001
Award for best book of the year, Spirituality & Health
One of the ten best books of the year, Arizona Daily Sun
Best book, Science & Spirit
Reviews
“Susanne Antonetta's considerable achievement in Body Toxic is to devise a literary voice for the people who live in such places, for the bodies that have been ‘charged and reformed by the landscape’ of pollution. Hers is one of those bodies.”
- Michael Pollan, The New York Times
“In this harrowing yet lovely memoir, poet Antonetta (Bardo) describes her childhood vacations in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, a holiday spot replete with crabbing, fishing and sunbathing—and a local water system tainted by nuclear waste, pesticides, cyanide, lead, mercury and other poisons. Although the book's target audience includes fans of Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action, this fascinating meditation on the body's tenuous relationship to its past and our stubborn nostalgia for places that may prove dangerous is far more poetic than most nonfiction legal thrillers.”
- Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction
I coauthored this nonfiction writing handbook and textbook with Brenda Miller. The third edition includes the text and writing prompts of the first edition, along with new sections on hypertext, blogging, multimedia, a step-by-step guide to publishing both individual essays and books, and much much more. A book website that contains essays, sample syllabi and other materials can be found here.
Reviews
“Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction.”
— Sheila Bender, editor and publisher
writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays
Make Me A Mother: A Memoir
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Reviews
Antonetta’s generous, humbling take on adoption adds another layer to today’s vastly “changing landscape of family,” where couples seeking adoption don’t necessarily have infertility issues and ethnic make-up tends more toward the richly diverse.
- Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
Antonetta beautifully demonstrates through her book that motherhood is a process of becoming, that mothers are shaped by our children just as children are shaped by their mothers, and that it is a process that never ends. She writes, “Jin has made me the mother I am and I have made him the son he is.” Antonetta’s willingness to share details of her difficult past and her own self-doubts as a mother make her a trustworthy narrator, and her inclusive understanding of adoption makes her particular story of formal adoption across continents into a universal story that any reader who has brought others—children, parents, friends—into her heart with intention can relate to.
- Andrea Lani, Literary Mama