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Washuta uses a more experimental style of writing to convey the dark, messy, yet ultimately fundamental truths of her life. I felt most drawn to the sections about religion's impact on her development as well as her chapters about her relationship with medication. I struggled to connect at points because of the more experimental, disjointed framework of the book - similar to my struggle with Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts - but I would still recommend it to those interested in any of the topics the book touches upon.

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Oct 16, Melissa rated it really liked it Shelves: she-and-or-they-but-not-he. I am sick of rape stories on CNN and sicker of rape stories on Jezebel. I would like instead to see national, televised debates and full episodes of morning radio shows and several long-form podcasts and a portion of the next State of the Union address dedicated to determining whether men should be allowed to keep their dicks. I want men to tell their stories of being sexually assaulted too.

A personal story about rape. A second-hand story about rape.

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A newsworthy story about rape. I am so very sick and so very tired of living in a world where there are just so many rape stories that are being told, a world where this is so commonplace, where these crimes happen with such frequency that they are practically the norm and not the totally bizarre, WTF, who-would-do-this-to-another-human-being anomaly they should be.

Elissa Washuta starts her book out with a story about being bipolar. I have read a lot of these. But this is not like anything of those books at all. This book is like getting kicked in the stomach. This is about being bipolar and rape and being Native American and medication and Kurt Cobain and mixed mania and my god, she can just pull it all together in such forceful, incredible way, there were times that I felt sort of afraid to pick this up and keep reading it.

This is a great book. But I am just so fucking sick of reading rape stories. View all 4 comments. Aug 29, Tina rated it it was amazing. This book can be intense, but I also found it refreshing. At first I thought "refreshing" might be an odd way to describe a book that so deeply explores cultural identity, rape, and bipolar disorder--but Elissa Washuta makes it so with her strong, clear voice and non-traditional form. This book is honest, authentically self-deprecating, and a little devastating, but also a little hopeful.

I absolutely love the way this book plays with form. I very much felt like I was exploring with her by This book can be intense, but I also found it refreshing. I very much felt like I was exploring with her by looking back at old documents and filtering them through more years of experience and reflection. I could relate to this in so many ways without having many directly relatable experiences, which is a testament to how well-done the book is as a whole and how strong Washuta's voice is.

I imagine this book will be important to many people--many women and many writers--in many ways. Aug 21, Wendy Ortiz rated it it was amazing. Six of five stars.

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Aug 01, Leah Levy rated it it was amazing. These unique parts exist both in the body and the mind that are explored here, as well as in several, interlocked themes: bipolar disorder; sexual assault; Catholicism; native identity. At first, each theme is explored in relatively distinct and varied forms that are intriguingly original. There is no escape for the reader; there is no way not to see.

Of course, being a relatively young woman in the world, there were parts I found more identifiable than others. I was particularly moved by the many explorations of female agency, victimhood vs. I absolutely loved the Match. As a reader primarily of more traditional forms, you would think, after the tumult of the first half of the book that I would feel relieved as the forms calmed into a more linear state — and I did.

I relaxed along with Washuta, I felt relieved to have found more clarity and control in the text as she found it in the right cocktail of medications. And yet, I felt that same sense of loss as the author — the loss of all of those feelings, and of that breadth of experience. What can my feelings be but evidence of just how effective the narrative was at moving me so closely through the bipolar experience?

As a fellow writer and a feeling person in the world, I identify with the chafing Washuta articulates when she hears that many other people have been through this, and that it will all be okay. And yet, the book still helped me gain a much deeper understanding of what it means to be so many broader identities that extend far beyond Washuta herself — bipolar, native, female, young — and I am again grateful for that broadening. My Body is a Book of Rule is a reclaiming of mind, story, identity and form.

And yet it is a release, too. Thank, you, Elissa, for being all of these things, for writing this book, and for being you. Jan 18, El rated it liked it Shelves: hear-me-roar-and-gender , library-borrow , mfa , 21st-centurylit , native-american , science-and-medicine. Elissa Washuta's memoir is I don't quite know what it is.

It is not like any memoir you've read before, that is for sure, and that's what I love about it. She tells about being raped in college, and sexually assaulted beyond that. She tells about having bipolar disorder. She tells about being Native American but looking white, and about her struggles with identity. It's all wonderfully told and in a strange, fluid, random way.

Washuta has dealt with so much, and as someone six years my junior I think that's about right , I'm in awe. She has been through some shit. We've all been through shit, though, in some way or another, right? The difference is she chose to write about it, in painful, raw detail. It's so raw she might as well have cut her skin opened and bled across the page. It's so raw that I could only read pieces of it at a time because I found myself going into a very dark place at times while reading it. Which isn't even a criticism, it's just the nature of her story. It doesn't make it any less an important read.

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I plan on reading more by Washuta and following her career. When I think about writing essays, and writing in a non-traditional format which clearly I think about way too fucking much these days , this is the sort of thing I think of. At times, however, mostly towards the end, it all became so fragmented that I thought the whole thing lacked coherence. This could be reflective of her own mental state, it could be entirely intentional. Either way is totally fine.

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As I drew to the close, I was reminded of a book I read years ago that I actually hated, but this made me wonder if I was too harsh on it at the time: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women. In that case, Wurtzel was so messed up on drugs that I really do think it affected her writing. I don't think that's the case here with Washuta's memoir. But I do think that with a more avant garde style of writing, it can be easy to lose one's way after a while.

Still, I found it so interesting and painfully so at times that I can mostly overlook even that. They seemed even further away than my own Indians because they had been right here, but the textbook said they were gone. When I was ten, a classmate told me she was Indian, too, and I said she was wrong, because she had never said so before.

I wanted to be the only Indian around. Sep 14, Sumayyah rated it really liked it Shelves: books-read-in In it, Washuta describes, often in great detail, her struggles with bipolar disorder, her assaults, her disordered eating, her battles with her identity racial and ethnic identity. There was parts I wanted to highlight, underline, and tattoo on my skin. There were parts that made me cringe and withdraw. There were parts that I related so closely to that I breathed a sigh of relief that we both survived.

Massive trigger warning for descriptions of rape, assault, disordered eating, and suicidal ideation, among other things. Again, this both is both harrowing and important; in my opinion, it will be appreciated by people unable or willing to be as open with their struggles as Washuta has been. I applaud Elissa Washuta for penning the story of her early life, and thank her for sharing it with us. Nov 16, Allison rated it liked it.

Parts of the book were inventive and the intentions matched the execution on the page, yet other parts seemed unfocused and somewhat redundant. I think it was a mistake to use so much material from the college years and rely on footnotes to fill in the gaps. I get what she was going for stylistically, but I'm not convinced the final draft pulled it off. Oct 13, Liana rated it it was ok.

Disjointed writing that tended to ramble with a whiny tone. Found myself surprisingly bored with this book. Jan 22, Cathleen rated it it was amazing. So many ways to describe this book: clever, full of pain, snarky, disturbing, tragic, illuminating, brilliant, overexposed, and unlike anything I've ever read before. Elissa Washuta bares all with an intensity that might make some cringe, but she does so with such honesty that you can't help but feel empathy for anyone suffering mental illness and to feel that more stories like this might further help not merely to bring awareness but also to allow us inside the brilliant and tortured mind Wow.

Elissa Washuta bares all with an intensity that might make some cringe, but she does so with such honesty that you can't help but feel empathy for anyone suffering mental illness and to feel that more stories like this might further help not merely to bring awareness but also to allow us inside the brilliant and tortured mind of one like Washuta's.

This book will haunt me for a long time.