I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton by Lynn Melnick

I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Lynn Melnick

7 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir music emotional reflective medium-paced
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 When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rur...

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funny 17%
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lighthearted 5%

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