A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon 's debut essay collection, The Incredible Shrinking Woman , is a gentle unpacking of the roles she learned to inhabit, growing up as a Black woman in a small Midwestern town, to avoid disruption.
But after the implosion of the life she'd always wanted, Dixon must explore the implications of her desire to hide as she rebuilds herself in a world that expects freedom to look boisterous.
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