Overview
Inspired by a brother's high school science project--a perpetual motion machine that could save the world-- The Perpetual Motion Machine is a memoir in essays that attempts to save a sibling by depicting the visceral pain that accompanies longing for some past impossibility. The collection has been a science project in its study of memory, in the calculation and plotting of the moments that make up a childhood. The preparation has been "in the field" in that it is built upon the gathering of lived experience; the evidence is photo albums, family interviews, and anecdotes from friends. The project has been one giant experiment--to see if they can all make it out alive.
- | Author: Brittany Ackerman
- | Publisher: Red Hen Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 20, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 152 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 1597096911
- | ISBN-13: 9781597096911
