Clam Down - Chen, Anelise
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"After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a 'clam' via typo after her mother keeps texting her to 'clam down.' The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to 'clam down' during crises: to retreat, hide, close up, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to 'clam up' when we can't speak, and to 'come out of our shell' when we reemerge, transformed. In order to understand her path, the clam digs into examples of others who have also 'succumbed to shellfish' to embrace lives of reclusiveness and extremity. This is a story that radiates outward from the kernel of selfhood to family, society, and ecosystem"--…mehr

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"After the dissolution of her marriage, a writer is transformed into a 'clam' via typo after her mother keeps texting her to 'clam down.' The funny if unhelpful command forces her to ask what it means to 'clam down' during crises: to retreat, hide, close up, and stay silent. Idiomatically, we are said to 'clam up' when we can't speak, and to 'come out of our shell' when we reemerge, transformed. In order to understand her path, the clam digs into examples of others who have also 'succumbed to shellfish' to embrace lives of reclusiveness and extremity. This is a story that radiates outward from the kernel of selfhood to family, society, and ecosystem"--
Autorenporträt
Anelise Chen is the author of the novel So Many Olympic Exertions, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She is a 5 Under 35 Honoree from the National Book Foundation. Chen is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her family.