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A vividly powerful memoir of a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her imperfection. Imagine waking up one day to find your words trapped inside your head, leaving you unable to say what you feel, think, want, or need. At the age of seven that happened to Katherine Preston. From that moment, she began battling her stutter and hiding her shame by denying there was anything wrong. Seventeen years later, exhausted and humiliated, she made a life-changing decision: to leave her home in London and spend a year traveling around America meeting hundreds of stutterers, speech therapists, and researchers. What began as a vague search for a cure became a journey that debunked the misconceptions shrouding the condition, and a love story that transformed her conception of what it means to be normal.
About the Author
Katherine Preston is the author of Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice (Simon and Schuster April 2013 in the US and July 2013 in the UK). At the age of twenty-four she left her home and career in London and moved to America to spend a year facing her greatest fear. Out With It recounts the journey that she went on to come to terms with her stutter. She is a writer, public speaker and her work has appeared in Salon, The Forward and The Telegraph. Raised in England, she currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
