Lead Poisoning: A memoir

Shame is like lead poisoning—one childhood brush with contamination and it's in your blood forever, warping every cell, every choice, every desperate grab at belonging.

From the suffocating suburbs of New Jersey to the glorious anonymity of New York City to Seattle's explosive music scene, I chased reinvention like a drug, thinking I could outrun what poisoned me in the first place. Raw, unflinching, and darkly funny, Lead Poisoning is for anyone who's ever felt like an outsider in their own life, who knows that the most dangerous drugs are the stories we tell ourselves about who we're supposed to be.