Constructing a Nervous System
{{Short description|2022 memoir by Margo Jefferson}}
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Constructing a Nervous System is a 2022 memoir by Margo Jefferson. It won the 2023 Rathbone Folio Prize.{{cite web |title=2023 Prize |url=https://thewritersprize.com/2023-prize/ |publisher=The Writers' Prize |access-date=11 February 2024 |quote=We are delighted to announce that the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year is Constructing a Nervous System ...}}{{cite news |last1=Shaffi |first1=Sarah |title=Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/27/margo-jefferson-wins-2023-rathbones-folio-prize |access-date=March 31, 2023 |work=The Guardian |date=March 27, 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Chakraborty |first1=Abhrajyoti |title=Constructing a Nervous System review – a deeply personal account of black female identity |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/01/constructing-a-nervous-system-review-a-deeply-personal-account-of-black-female-identity |access-date=April 1, 2023 |work=The Observer |date= May 1, 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Sandstrom |first1=Karen |title=In critic Margo Jefferson's memoir, a life is refracted through art |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/22/critic-margo-jeffersons-memoir-life-is-refracted-through-art/ |access-date=1 April 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=April 22, 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Molly |title=Margo Jefferson's New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/books/review-constructing-nervous-system-margo-jefferson.html |access-date=1 April 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=12 April 2022}}
The book was a finalist for the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction in 2023.{{cite web |date=October 3, 2022 |title=2023 Winners |url=https://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/carnegie-medals/2023-winners |access-date=April 1, 2023 |website=Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence |publisher=Reference & User Services Association (RUSA) |language=en}} and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.{{cite web |last1=Varno |first1=David |date=24 March 2023 |title=Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/03/24/announcing-the-2022-nbcc-award-winners/ |access-date=1 April 2023 |website=National Book Critics Circle}}