Elevation and Beyond: A U2 Fan's Travels to Meet the Band, the Crowd, Herself

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Elevation and Beyond is the true story of the birth of unreasonable devotion to a rock band. It is one fan's voyage through life within the context of that devotion. The narrative follows an arcing, sometimes looping, process from self-centered isolation to connection and integration.

The process begins within the context of an Irish Catholic family upbringing in the eighties, where the author as a child is exposed to and impressed upon by the music of U2 through the vinyl records of her older siblings. Upon arrival into adolescence, she sustains a traumatic brain injury; the subsequent blanket of post-concussive depression and isolated misery is infiltrated only by the lighted images of Bono singing and smoking alone at a darkened bar in the video for "One" in 1992.

From there, the chase begins. Movement out of fear and alienation is spurred by the fire of her passion for U2 and U2 music. From a lonely teenage bedroom wall-papered with pictures of Bono and U2, she makes her debut at college with a drive to see U2 live in concert again, and again, and again.

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Marcy Gannon works as a registered nurse. She has made Denver, Colorado her home for the last twenty years. She is a practicing yogi, a certified yoga teacher, and a professional wellness coach.

Marcy was born on November 9, 1976, exactly 45 days after U2 first met in Larry Mullen Jr's kitchen. She occasionally wonders if it was the great clatter they made that called her spirit forth into her mama's womb.