Shadow Girl : A Memoir of Attachment

In this psychological portrait of a devout Jewish family bound together by the uneasy permutations of love, Deb Abramson relies not on sensationalist narrative but on a collection of the many small moments that glitter along the bumpy path of her life. As the good little girl in an unhappy family who hid her darker troubles, Abramson felt like she was living with another girl, a shadowy being who would neither leave nor make herself known. Her struggle to extricate herself from the "impermeable, immutable knot" of her family forms the heart of her dazzling book.

Deb Abramson received her bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1991 and her MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in 2000.  Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Sun, River Teeth, Under the Sun, and other publications.  A Pushcart Prize nominee, she lives in Vermont.  Shadow Girl is her first book.