What Runs OverWhat Runs Over

"Born from the isolation of rural Pennsylvania, a life of homeschooling, and psychological and physical domestic abuse, Kayleb Rae Candrilli's memoir in verse, 'What Runs Over', demands attention. Unfurling and unrelenting in its delivery, Candrilli has painted "the mountain" in excruciating detail. They show readers a world of canned peaches, of Borax cured bear hides, of urine filled Gatorade bottles, of the syringe and all the syringe may carry. They show a world of violence and its many personas. 'What Runs Over', too, is a story of rural queerness, of a transgender boy almost lost to the forest forever"--Back cover.