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Synopsis
Against the backdrop of his teenage sister’s car accident—in which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friends—Jon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica’s sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language. Lyrical in its approach and unflinching in its honesty, Sleep in Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy.
A prize-winning poet’s account of the irreparable damage and the new understanding that tragedy brings to his Filipino American family, Pineda’s book is a remarkable story maneuvering between childhood memories of his sister cheerleading and moments of monitoring her in a coma and changing her adult diapers. Pineda adeptly navigates between these moments of idyllic youth and heartbreaking sadness. Vivid and lyrical, his story is an exploration of what it means to live deeply with tragedy and of the impact such a story can have on a boy’s journey to manhood.
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About the Author
Jon Pineda is the author of the novel LET'S NO ONE GET HURT, winner of the 2019 Emyl Jenkins Sexton Literary Award/Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction.
His other works include his debut novel APOLOGY, winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize and his memoir SLEEP IN ME, a B&N Discover selection, a Library Journal "Best Books of 2010" selection, and a Publishers Weekly "Indie Sleepers" pick. His poetry collections include THE TRANSLATOR'S DIARY, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize for Poetry, BIRTHMARK, winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition, and LITTLE ANODYNES, winner of the 2016 Library of Virginia Literary Award in Poetry. A member of the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, Jon directs the creative writing program at William & Mary.
His other works include his debut novel APOLOGY, winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize and his memoir SLEEP IN ME, a B&N Discover selection, a Library Journal "Best Books of 2010" selection, and a Publishers Weekly "Indie Sleepers" pick. His poetry collections include THE TRANSLATOR'S DIARY, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize for Poetry, BIRTHMARK, winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition, and LITTLE ANODYNES, winner of the 2016 Library of Virginia Literary Award in Poetry. A member of the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte, Jon directs the creative writing program at William & Mary.
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