Constructing a Nervous System is a 2022 memoir by Margo Jefferson.

It won the 2023 Rathbone Folio Prize.

[1][2][3][4][5] The book was a finalist for the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction in 2023.

[6] and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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