Possums Run Amok
A True Tale Told Slant
Lora Lafayette
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2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction
Possums Run Amok is a rollicking, slyly hilarious, at times uncomfortable and dark memoir. With fearless candor, Lora Lafayette recounts her life from a delinquent, late 1970s punk rock adolescence through a crooked, manic, transatlantic path to adulthood and her eventual terrifying descent into schizophrenia, all the while trying to wrest as much wild joy as she can out of life.
Contributor Bio
Lora Lafayette's writing has appeared in such publications as Plazm Magazine, The Buckman Journal, and Pen & Ink. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with Finn, who purrs. She still travels the world, though not quite so frenetically as she used to.