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Description of  I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (American Music Series)

When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural Tennessee. Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnicka poet, urbanite, and daughter of a middle-class Jewish familyneeded to be. Because Melnick, like the musician she adores, is a survivor. Read more