Independent Study Episode 1, Where There is Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00X35LFIU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 567 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Where There is Movement, is the first episode of Evan Knapp's memoir, Independent Study. It is more than a story about a son, a brother, a friend, and later a husband. Bullied for being a gay, ballet dancing punk rocker, he runs away from home. Too young to be on his own, choices - prompted by the external, and the internal - carry him into realms that outreach his aspirations, and traipse him into worlds most would not visit.With his hit and run style, Evan Knapp collapses and expands time. The only thing that keeps him above surface, is his unhindered desire to simply dance, and to make that his career. While surviving on the streets, he fights to find way
DAC said Wow!!. I'm blown away. I grew up in Corvallis and even got to dance with Evan a bit at our high school. I always thought he was part magic - way too amazing compared to a normal and boring person like me. It breaks my heart that bad things happened to him when I was so close - in school or our small town, you are never far from anyone else. But I was too far to do any good. But E. "Let just stop bullying. Now." according to S. M. Schreiber. I knew who Evan was when we were children. To me, he always seemed like one of those magical people--full of energy and light. To hear that he was so relentlessly bullied, and to realize what his life was really like is just socrushing. I'm sorry, Evan. I was bullied, too. I think that now teachers and parents (hopefully) treat bullying in a more serious manner then they d. Lynn Sullivan said Immensely readable. Immensely readable, with a unique voice that I haven't seen before in other memoirs. An interesting story that grabbed me from the beginning and never let me go. Something universal about this book- helping us to all call to mind the sometimes painful path to adulthood, and the reminder that perhaps all of us have a creative spirit and artist inside of us, yearning to be s