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The stunning intimate essays inAnxious Attachmentstake us through the life stages of a woman living in the American Southwest from the 1970s to the present As she moves from adolescence into adulthood the narrator grapples with attachments that develop through her family and her ties to the wider world around her while she works as a teacher writer and caregiver Though written from a single womans perspective these essays invite us to reflect on the many roles women play and the social factors that touch upon them Alvarados stories portray a broad world of experience reflecting on class race and poverty in America with emotional depth and sensitivity