Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays

Gold Medal for the 2025 IPPY Award Urgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks. Using cosmology as a foil to discuss human issues, Bailey Gaylin Moore describes praying to the sky during moments of despondency, observing a solar eclipse while reflecting on what it means to be in the penumbra of society, and using galaxy identification to understand herself. During a collision of women's rights, gun policy, and racial tension, Thank You for Staying with Me is a frank and intimate rumination on how national policy and social attitudes affect both the individual and the public sphere, especially in such a conservative part of the United States.

• | Author: Bailey Gaylin Moore
• | Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00226 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1496241932
• | ISBN-13: 9781496241931