Allison Moorer has been nominated for Academy, Grammy, Americana Music Association and Academy of Country Music Awards. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and lives in New York City and Nashville.
"Blood is the most vulnerable work you're likely to read for
quite some time."
--Rick Bass, author of For a Little While
"Blood reveals the complicated mess of love and hurt that
all too many readers will recognize. Moorer herself survived the
unimaginable, and her poetic testimony should summon vigorous new
attention to the public-health crisis that is male anger."
--Sarah Smarsh, author of Heartland
"[A] harrowing debut."--Elle
"[Moorer's] written this book like a symphony. It is expansive, and
its three parts feel like movements. Moorer fills them with prose
that has the sharp honesty of the greatest songwriters."
--The Bitter Southerner
"Allison Moorer is known for songs of ragged, poetic honesty -- and
for the emotional clarity of her country western ballads. Her debut
memoir exhibits these qualities and more."
--LitHub, one of the most anticipated books of 2019
"Beautiful, heart-wrenching . . . Moorer's masterful, comforting
storytelling may serve as solace for those who've faced abuse, a
signal for those in it to get out, and an eye-opener for
others."
--Publishers Weekly starred review
"Grit and grace, beauty and pain, on every wise page. Allison
Moorer has given us a memoir as bloody, rich, and complex as red
Alabama clay."
--Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone
"Her voice rings with equal parts defiance and vulnerability."
--Blender
"Like her songwriting, Moorer's prose is steeped in a rich sense of
place, vivid characterization, and a story you will never forget.
Not since Joan Didion's Blue Nights has grief been explored
with so much beauty and complexity."
--Silas House, author of Southernmost
"Moorer's memoir is full of backstory-memories, current notes and
thoughts, and well-described metaphors that come together fluidly,
all told with grit and lyrical prose. ...Her writing is beautiful
and gripping and will stop readers in their tracks...a
must-read."
--Booklist starred review
"There is much wisdom in her experience as well as in her
reflections on what she has read and heard....Much different from
most musicians' memoirs and of much interest to all who wrestle to
understand tragedies of their own."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Written with brave, clear-eyed compassion for all involved,
Blood is an astonishing and moving meditation on family
inheritance and acceptance. Despite her family's singularly tragic
circumstances, Blood tells a universal story about the
things our parents pass down to us -- what we learn to be grateful
for, what we release ourselves from, and what we simply leave
alone."
--Jennifer Palmieri, author of Dear Madame President
"There are few writers -- few people, in fact -- who could examine
with such profound bravery the immense suffering and trauma in her
story, infuse it with a lyrical sense of timelessness, and make us
feel grateful for the telling. Blood is both unflinching and
redemptive: a song of loss and courage."
--Rosanne Cash
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