PAPERBACK: This Rambling Heart

When she was 19, all Alex Luceli Jiménez could think about was dying. What followed was a five-year journey of troubleshooting medication cocktails, dreams about her dead father, forging and reigniting various connections with friends and family, missing and making up appointments with paid professionals, reluctantly trying out a ten-month stint as a middle school English teacher, finding a career that brings her genuine joy, spending an excessive amount of time listening to moody female singer-songwriters, and entering into her first relationship.

This Rambling Heart is a collage of nervous breakdowns, cries for attention, and reluctant nostalgia. There are no apologies in this book. As one of the opening poems says, “I want to be huge—I don’t care.”

87 pages

Physical copy: 6 x 9, perfect bound

$5 of each physical copy sold will go to Anera (anera.org — "Since 1968, Anera has helped refugees and others hurt by conflicts in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan live with purpose and hope").