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223 pages Contents: Bones -- Witches -- The Te Kuiti underground -- Postie -- On any walk -- Big Red -- Window seat -- Black dog book -- Katherine would approive -- Wolf man -- She cannot work -- Can you tolerate this? -- Absolutely flying -- Measuring time -- Sea of trees -- Bikram's knee -- Unveiling -- On breathing -- On going away -- Anemone -- Lark Summary: Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young. In this spirited and singular book, Young roams freely from preoccupation to preoccupation - Hamilton's nineties music scene, family histories, a boy with a rare skeletal disease, a stone-collecting French postman, a desire for impossible physical transformation - trying to find some measure of clarity amid uncertainty. How to bear each moment of experience: the inconsequential as much as the shattering? Her search takes us through poignant, funny and raw territories. (Publisher)