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In the Cellar of My Mind, There Are Peaches transports the reader to 1970s rural Iowa where the author Priscilla Riggle grew up. Linked essays map a world where a baby sister is more interesting than a moonwalk, Barbies live side by side with a little girl, and a deceased great-grandmother keeps her lawn mowed and her root cellar well-stocked.

Joyful play is intermingled with unexplained family moves, oppressive religious indoctrination, and life with a father who abuses his children in the name of spiritual discipline. The narrator navigates the seemingly impossible tension between delight and dread with sensitivity, insight, and hope.

Priscilla Riggle grew up crisscrossing the midwest and graduated high school just after the family's fifteenth move. Teachers and librarians kept her sane. After college, Priscilla taught writing, film studies, and popular literature at Truman State University in Missouri for twenty-eight years. She now lives in Ridgefield, Washington with her mother and their cat.