ode to storytelling itself... A gorgeous and heartrending story of survival.Melissa Febos author of GirlhoodA moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman a survivor an artist and an icon.The first time Lynn Melnick listened to a Dolly Parton song in full she was 14 years old in the triage room of a Los Angeles hospital waiting to be admitted to a drug rehab program. Already in her young life as a Jewish teen in the 1980s she had been the victim of rape abuse and trauma and her path to healing would be long. But in Partons words and music she recognized a fellow survivor.In this powerful incisive work of social and selfexploration Melnick blends personal essay with cultural criticism to explore Parton dual identities as feminist icon and objectified sex symbol identities that reflect the author own fraught history with rape culture and the arduous work of reclaiming her voice.