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Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir

By (author) Alexandra Teague

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In Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir, Alexandra Teague explores cycles of family trauma and both the dangerous and recuperative powers of fantasy. Teague attempts to understand and contextualize her â€œferal Victorianâ€ family in terms of trauma and mental health, but also with deep love and humor. How did people who prided themselves on making everything from scratch take annual trips to Disney World? What did it mean that Teagueâ€™s mother claimed to have psychic abilities? How did her sensitive youngest nephew end up talking in a voice that wasnâ€™t his own? Why did Teague, the daughter of educated non-conformist parents, marry as a teenager (with her parentsâ€™ blessing) and spend seven years in an abusive relationship? How do family legacies of grief and dysfunction and creativity intersect? How do any of us make meaning or escape our circumstances without replicating the fantasies or escapism with which weâ€™ve been raised? Teague is carefully attuned to the vagaries of geographical cultures, and she weaves her familyâ€™s history and weighty explorations of trauma and psychology not just with pop culture but with the specific cultures of the places she and her family pass through: the Bay Area, a tiny college town in the Inland Northwest, a Southwest ghost town, a Texas city, an Arkansas hippie bubble, and Central Florida suburb. Spinning Tea Cups will appeal to readers interested in American cultural studies, those concerned with the ongoing crisis of mental illness in this country, and those who simply love strange, quirky, richly told stories.

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