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> We don't experience memory in linear fashion, nor even in a strictly coherent one. It's peppered with tangents and strange loops. It's multithreaded. It's not always made up of words. Why should a memoir strive to strip memory completely of this context?

<em class="ally-font">ally</em> is an ergodic, arborescent, semiautobiographical work about identity, mental health, spirituality, and the mutability of the past. A lot of the information contained within is real, some of it isn’t. Each page is structured as a conversation between myself and my ally, a mirror reflection of myself.

Based off the interactive project at [<em class="ally-font">ally.id</em>](https://ally.id), this book explores different facets of my life — some true, some embellished, some wholly fictitious — in a non-linear, ergodic fashion, using color, page-layout, and mixed-media to create a book more experience than memoir.

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## Content warning

Several sections focus on suicide, self-harm, rape, sexual content, and poor mental health.

## Advance praise

"Cleareyed yet powerfully immediate . . . A fresh, daring exploration of lived experience."

> — [Kirkus Reviews](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/madison-scott-clary/allyC/)

"I felt I was chasing down fractions of the author's soul. Chasing them not because I got this to read and review, but because I deeply wanted to. So I could put them together and solve an ultimate puzzle whose picture would contain some incompre-hensible beauty."

> — [Linnea Capps](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3236700737?book_show_action=true)

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> Have you been at your Maddy-est about it?

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Of course.

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* ISBN: 9781948743150