All the Difference - Patricia Horvath

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      © 2016 by Patricia Horvath

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher:

      Etruscan Press

      Wilkes University

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      Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766

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      Published 2017 by Etruscan Press

      Cover artwork by Jeffrey LeBlanc

      Cover design by L. Elizabeth Powers

      Interior design and typesetting by Susan Leonard

      The text of this book is set in Warnock.

       First Edition

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Horvath, Patricia, author.

      Title: All the difference / Patricia Horvath.

      Description: First edition. | Wilkes-Barre, PA: Etruscan Press, [2017]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016054248 | ISBN 9780997745573 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Horvath, Patricia--Health. | Osteoporosis--Patients--United States--Biography. | Osteoporosis--Popular works. | Self-care, Health--Popular works. | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing / General. | SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success.

      Classification: LCC RC931.O73 H68 2017 | DDC 616.7/160092 [B] --dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054248

      To protect the privacy of actual people, some of the names in this book have been changed.

      Please turn to the back of this book for a list of the sustaining funders of Etruscan Press.

      This book is printed on recycled, acid-free paper.

      To my mother, who was there.

      She is still asking herself where this body ought to be, where exactly to put it so that it will cease to be a burden to her.

      —Marguerite Duras,

       The Ravishing of Lol Stein

      Contents

       Orphans

       Monkey Girl

       Chastity Belt

       Percentages

       In Hospital

       Lights Out

       All the Difference

       Waiting

       Meltings

       Baby Steps

       Partings

       Pacifying the Beast

       Straddling

       Gone

       Unchosen

       Backward Glances

       Legacy

       Epilogue

       About the Author

       Acknowledgments

      Excerpts from this work first appeared in Cream City Review and 2 Bridges Review.

      I wish to thank the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Hedgebrook, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Blue Mountain Center for their support. Thank you, as well, to Framingham State University.

      For their encouragement and sage critique I thank Robert Dow, Marita Golden, Michelle Hoover, Jane Rosenberg LaForge, Jeffrey LeBlanc, Jay Neugeboren, Kate Southwood, Elizabeth Fairfield Stokes, and Michelle Valois. Thank you to my mother, Maureen Cotter, and to my brother, Howard Horvath, Jr., for putting up with my questions. Thank you to Chris Bullard for his sharp editorial eye. Finally, thank you to the good people at Etruscan Press, most especially Bill Schneider and Pamela Turchin, for their belief in this book and their hard work in helping it come to fruition.

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