Stray, Tanya Marquardt
Stray, Tanya Marquardt
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Stray
Memoir of a Runaway

Author: Tanya Marquardt

Narrator: Tanya Marquardt

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/01/2018

Synopsis

Brutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself.After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home, Tanya Marquardt runs away on her sixteenth birthday. Her departure is an act of rebellion and survival—whatever she is heading toward has to be better than what she is leaving behind.Struggling with her inner demons, Tanya must learn to take care of herself during two chaotic years in the working-class mill town of Port Alberni, followed by the early-nineties underground goth scene in Vancouver, British Columbia. She finds a chosen family in her fellow misfits, and the bond they form is fierce and unflinching.Told with raw honesty and strength, Stray reveals Tanya’s fight to embrace the vulnerable, beguiling parts of herself and heal the wounds of her past as she forges her own path to a new life.

About Tanya Marquardt

Tanya Marquardt is an award-winning performer and the author of ten plays, which have been produced across Canada and the United States. Transmission was published in the Canadian Theatre Review, and Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep was the subject of an episode of NPR’s Invisibilia. A Hertog Fellow and graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Hunter College, Tanya splits her time between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Brooklyn, New York. Stray is her first book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Don on August 01, 2018

I have mixed feelings while writing this review. After finishing the book, I went back to reread the book descriptions to see what I might have missed when choosing this book. I felt a bit betrayed, as the description didn’t exactly fit the story I read. “Stray” is author Tanya Marquardt’s sharing o......more

Goodreads review by Marissa on December 22, 2018

Although the writing wasn’t bad, I felt constantly let down by this book. Only about 1/4 of it takes place during the 6 months when she was “a runaway”, with the rest happening before and after. The description says she has nowhere to go, but that’s not at all true. She goes straight to a friend’s a......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on August 31, 2018

I found this memoir to be incredible. Poo poo on all the naysayers. Tanya's writing is incredibly raw and forthcoming. Her book is not meant to be solely about being a "runaway" but as a "stray". There's a difference. How could you not pick up on the stray feeling throughout the book??!? She had no......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay on September 04, 2018

THIS IS NOT A MEMOIR OF A RUNAWAY. Held to the title (and expectation it creates) this book fails miserably. marquardt “ran away” and lived at a friends house for three months but that’s only a small fact in the story shared. Mostly this book follows her 16th year where she lives with her mom (verbal......more

Goodreads review by Ana on August 02, 2018

Meh This memoir held some personal interest because I grew up with a similar group of friends and circumstances. The writing? It’s not The Glass Castle—no rich storytelling can be found. There are a lot of information dumps, which can get a little tedious. If the author and I didn’t share similar exp......more

Quotes

“Marquardt’s memoir is a brutally honest reflection on her fraught adolescence and journey of self-realization…Hers is an entirely relatable teenage journey: at once sensitive and selfish, desperate and brash. This is an edgy memoir about a young woman trying to understand herself.” —Publishers Weekly“The highly expressive narrative is often brutal and raw, a combination of truth and penance, and it feels like a confession leading toward sanity and forgiveness.” —Kirkus Reviews“Her coming-of-age memoir tells a tender, heartbreaking story of a young woman who became an adult sooner than she had to.” —HelloGiggles

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