Anxious Attachments

Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and Longlisted for PEN America’s Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Anxious Attachments takes us through the life stages of a woman living in the American Southwest from the 1970s to the present. In a series of intimate essays, Alvarado moves from adolescence into adulthood while grappling with attachments that develop through her family and her ties to the wider world around her while she works as a teacher, writer, and