num_pages: 240
description:  When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup culminating in a hospital stay everythingfrom her early childhood trauma and mental health to her relationship with mathematicsshows up in the tapestry of her healing. In this exquisite and raw reflection Felix repossesses herself through the exploration of history shed left behind using her childhood dyscalculiaa disorder that makes it difficult to learn mathas a metaphor for the consequences of her miscalculations in love. Through reckoning with this breakup and other adult gambles in intimacy Felix asks the question: Who gets to assert their right to pain? Felix negotiates the misalignments of perception and reality love and harm and the politics of heartbreak both romantic and familial.
language: English
title: Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
publisher: One World