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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book was advertised as "A Memoir in Essays" and I suppose that that is true, but the first part of the book is very unlike a series of structured essays. Observations about the world, yes, but essays? I was not in the mood for this book so I didn't finish. My reaction was colored by the similarities in form between this book and My Name is Lucy Barton, which I had just finished. These books were published at roughly the same time but I have no interest in digging around to see if the authors acknowledge each other's influence. In any case, I found the fictional Lucy Barton to be a more sparkling narrator than CJ Hauser. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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CJ Hauser uses her now-beloved title essay as an anchor around which to explore the narratives of romantic love we are taught and which we tell ourselves, and the need to often rewrite those narratives to find an accurate version of ourselves in them. Told with a late-night barstool directness, through the sort of giddy confidences that usually pass between friends, Hauser relates, in dark and often funny ways, the pain of feeling out of sync with the world when you're going through the motions of a life story that doesn't match your reality. Hauser grapples with the art she loves to mine new understanding of what these sorts of narratives might have to offer as a way forward. These essays follow Hauser as she dismantles the narrative expectations she carried inside her, letting go of the roles she performed to make others comfortable, and seeking joy by tending relationships with community and chosen family--love stories in their own right. The essays capture the daily work of trying, if sometimes failing, to architect a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a sort of home, to live in. 'The Crane Wife and Other Essays' asks what more inclusive storytelling about family and love and growth might offer us all. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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These are modern meditations on letting people be who they need to be even if they don’t fill the role you want them to, the power and humility it takes to begin seeking people who can meet you where you’re at and accept your needs, and the wonderousness of queer beginnings and multiple heartbreaks in the same home and a good cry in therapy!
Everyone would benefit from reading this book, but it’s especially for the girls, gays, and the theys who ask themselves, “Why can’t you imagine someone accommodating your whole self the way you imagine accommodating someone else?” (A particularly wonderful quote that comes from the essay “Uncoupling”—one of the best parts of the book and one totally worth jumping straight into if you especially need it). ( )