DUALITY OF WOLVES

THE LATEST BOOK BY SHANE MANIER IS HERE!

Duality of Wolves is a coming of age memoir about growing up on the road while being raised by wild, fierce loving caretakers. 

This book highlights the duality of our lived experiences. That two things can be true at the same time, and there is not just one lesson, but many in any given moment.

The gift of duality is that we get to decide what those moments mean for ourselves. 

From bar fights to fun loving campfire nights, Duality of Wolves unfolds the complexities of love, grief, freedom, belonging and displacement to show the reader that when you reclaim the meaning of your history, you come home to yourself. 

This book is for any child who had to learn to navigate a world different from how they were raised, who felt as though they had to hide a part of who they were and where they come from. For anyone who found themselves having to defend or argue their own lived experiences because their life was too wild for others to comprehend.

This is for us, the wolves who were thrown to the humans. 

REVIEWS

In Duality of Wolves, we are shown that anything can be a weapon but does not have to be; jagged glass can also be a mirror, everything reflected is beautiful, everything sharp is a lesson. This mixed-genre memoir is moving, transformational, and necessary for anyone in need of disarming their own past. “Every baby in the south gets gifted a gun.” Be careful reader, this book is loaded and Shane Manier knows how to shoot! - Jay Ward, Poet Laureate of Charlotte NC.

The memoir Duality of Wolves is a riveting account of artist and writer Shane Manier’s early years, traveling the blue highways of America with her parents to industrial construction sites, then returning to a family farm in rural Tennessee. Manier pulls no punches. The narrative is filled with violence and hard drinking. But there is also music, joyful storytelling, and the shared camaraderie of workers and family around a myriad of campfires. Manier’s father, Tex, a millwright with a short fuse, who lives by his own personal code, is pivotal to the story. Much of Wolves is an exploration of their complex relationship, their shared restlessness, and reverence for the natural world. Poems and wonderful family pictures are interspersed between the prose narratives. The language is lively and packed with surprises. The result is an unflinching vision of an authentic outsider upbringing, full of a beauty and danger that the reader cannot resist. Wolves is a book you will not be able to put down. - Tim Peeler, Poet, Author of Rough Beast, Casey Award Finalist 

To a certain extent, everyone plays the cards they’re dealt, but what if every card is a wild card? I’ve known Shane Manier for twenty years: sat next to her, judging the regional Poetry Out Loud Contest, watched her arrive with her poetry troupe in Lincolnton, smoking a cigarette, talking nervously, preparing to spit a poem as passionately as Ginsberg in the shadow of Ferlinghetti’s store, followed her on social media: her endless activism, living an artist’s life. I thought I knew her, but then I read this sprawling memoir, the raw and open wound of its telling, and I realized, I barely knew her at all. - Tim Peeler, Poet, Author of Rough Beast, Casey Award Finalist

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“The Job From Hell” features my daddy’s work logs from one of the most difficult sites he’d worked.

These work logs highlight hard-core work ethic, and how a little bit of humor goes a long way.

Get a peek into the world of industrial construction!

GET YOUR TIX FOR THE BOOK RELEASE SHOW!

On July 29th at Three Bone Theater in Charlotte NC, 6:30pm show start | doors open at 6pm

Expect passionate live performances by Shane Manier, the soulful Daniel Arthur Gurley, sax legend “Zoot”, and local live-wire Shoney Lamar.

“YOU ARE LOVED. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE.

IF THERE’S NOT A SPACE FOR US,

LET’S CLAW OUT ONE.”