Blood Moorer Allison
Blood Moorer Allison The Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter's haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable act of violence and ultimate healing through artMobile,…
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Blood Moorer Allison
The Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter's haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable act of violence and ultimate healing through artMobile, Alabama, 1986. On the front lawn, her father has shot and killed her mother before turning the gun on himself. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire.
But that moment, which forever altered her own life and that of her older sister, Shelby, has never been far from her thoughts. Allison Moorer would grow up to be an award-winning musician, with her songs likened to "a Southern accent: eight miles an hour, deliberate, and very dangerous to underestimate" (Rolling Stone). Now, in her journey to understand the unthinkable, to parse the unknowable, Allison uses her lyrical storytelling powers to lay bare the memories and impressions that make a family, and that