Corpses Rarely Wander: How I Became a Loveless, Trailer Park Nomad

The New York Times Called Cynthia Polutanovich’s Writing, “Eloquently Steamy.”

At the age of eight, in 1982, Cynthia Polutanovich, the quirky narrator of this 1980s and 90s coming-of-age memoir, moves with her mother and sister into a trailer park in small town Maryland. After she leaves home at age fifteen, you will journey with her to West Virginia, Nebraska, and South Carolina, taking a break for a long car camping trip along the East Coast, finally ending up in the northern mountains of New Mexico. Circulating through 1990s grunge bars, coffee houses, and living in trailers, shacks and school busses she deals with issues of fundamentalist religion, relationship troubles, poverty, personal trauma, and a sudden addition to her sexual identity. Told with an unconventional wit, warmth, humor and moments of radical candidness, Corpses Rarely Wander captures the search of a young woman to find love in the world around her, meaning in this brief life, and a home inside her own skin.

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