The electric woman
Subtitle: a memoir in death-defying acts
By: Tessa Fontaine
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780374158378
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Women circus performers; Circus performers; Sideshows; Mothers and daughters; World of Wonders (Sideshow); Biography
Description: "Follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother"--Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The trick is there is no trick; title: The architecture of a wave; title: The snake charmer; title: Human history; title: Open the gates; title: The dragon; title: Snickers T. Clown; title: Cake; title: Hair ingredients; title: Let's us have fun; title: The moon is apple pie; title: The softest skin of anyone in the entire world; title: Daughters; title: Mud; title: And the low sky opens; title: The departure; title: Emergency; title: Fresh meat; title: The Titanic was child's play; title: Monsters; title: Premium footlong corn dogs; title: Where your name is writ; title: Cash money; title: Wildewoman; title: The sword swallower; title: The animal undone; title: Sounds past the noises; title: Behind the night's dress; title: Christmas fish; title: Dr. Frankenstein's hushed blood love song; title: Normalaphobia; title: Invisibilia; title: Bloodlust; title: The heroes; title: Electricity; title: By ship into the sea; title: Twinklers; title: The great reveal; title: Out of the mist; title: Epilogue: Where you will float electric.