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Austin Beaton

Goodreads Author

Born

in Portland, OR

Website

http://www.austinbeaton.com/

Twitter

writebeaton

Genre

Poetry, Memoir, Fiction

Influences

Chloe Caldwell. Matthew Dickman. Lidia Yuknavitch. Jay Ponteri. Wendy ...more

Member Since

February 2013

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You're not an alien! is what Austin Beaton is sometimes remembering to tell the little boy hiding inside his memory. Through poetry and memoir, Beaton confronts what it means to feel like you're always outside of where you should be: the right job, the present moment, at a party in a hip city with food trucks and cleverly-named martinis.

Raised in Oregon as an only child in a forest beside a river, and now living in a pretty California that doesn't fit right, Beaton's poems are little stories about dealing with change, trauma, and the heartbreak of that life we live doubly: in our head and on the planet. As an experiencer of anxiety, depression, and depersonalization (a condition in which you don't feel like you're in your own body), his na ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 17 ratings · 4 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Hindsight 20/Something 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Hindsight 20/Something: Personal stories from twenty-somethings on transition, failure, and stumbling through the quarter life crisis. 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars