My Life in Clothes

By Summer Brenner

"Despite my mother’s efforts to tame me, I resisted, holding onto my creature nature until the day she informed me I would no longer be running naked in the yard or showering with my dad. It took a few scoldings before I was transformed from colt to show-pony: a proper reflection of whichever laundered, starched, pressed, brushed, straightened, zippered, tied, and buttoned garment was placed upon me."

—From the foreword of Summer Brenner's new collection of short stories, My Life in Clothes



These stories explore the charm, tyranny, and preoccupation of clothes, on and off, bought, made, or found, fashion or function, projection or expression, body and soul turned inside out.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Release date: Jan 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781597094399

Summer Brenner

Summer Brenner is the author of a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and occasional essay; and an activist focused on literacy and criminal justice reform. Richmond Tales, Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle was honored with an Historic Preservation award and a Human Rights award from the City of Richmond; selected as Richmond's first All City-All Read book; chosen as one of five books for "Read Across America" by the California Teachers Association; and co-produced as a play by the Richmond Rotary and the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts with Brit Frazier as director and Ellen Sebastian Chang as dramaturg. Richmond Tales has also been adopted by the American Reading Company for distribution nationwide.