Thank You for Staying with Me by Moore, Bailey Gaylin;

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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.

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Author’s Note

Step One: How to Be a Daughter

Mostly My Mother’s Daughter

Second Molars

Behind the Subway in Chesterfield Village

Puke Angels

Dark Center of the Universe

The End of the Rainbow

Choices

Step Two: How to Hold a Baby

Piece by Piece

ACTing

Wall of Water

Step Three: How to Be a Student

Galaxy Identification

Hegel Exercises

Count the Beats

Unbreaking an Egg

A Scattering of Our Own

Step Four: How to Untangle Knots

One Fish, Two Fish

Matted and Mangled

Life Is Too Short Not to Get Beef Jerky from a Van on the Side of a Highway

Dissonance

If You Build It, Baseball Dads Will Come

Step Five: How to Mourn a Nation

Mein(e) C—

Reclaiming Voices Like Needles in Haystacks

Twitter’s Hot Takes on Women in Politics

Gal-vanized

Step Six: How to Love Your Home

Two Degrees of Separation from Brad Pitt

When Natalie Walks into the Snow

Penumbra

D Explains How to Speak to a Police Officer

All Things Being Equal

Homecoming

Overkill

Praying to Lyra

Brave New World

Thank You for Staying with Me

Acknowledgments