The crane wife : a memoir in essays
Hauser, CJ2022
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"Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. She realized she'd been trapped by her own narratives about love, ones that looked like other people's. But what if there were room for a different kind of story? New definitions of love? In this intimate, frank and funny memoir-in-essays, CJ Hauser releases herself from her story of How Life Was Supposed to Be. She searches for new narratives - ones that make room for strangeness, and not-knowing. Ones that feel more honest. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She re-reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and re-winds Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to ask whether you can ever have a fresh start with an old love. She writes about friends and lovers and blood family and chosen family and children and animals and ghosts and a whole planet in this book, and hopes you see all of these as love stories"--Publisher's description.
Main title:
The crane wife : a memoir in essays / Christina Joyce Hauser.
Author:
Hauser, CJ, author
Imprint:
London : Viking, 2022.©2022
Collation:
304 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Blood: twenty-seven love storiesAct one: the mechanicalsHepburn qua HepburnThe man behind the curtainThe crane wifeKind of deep blueAct two: The FantasticksThe lady with the lampMulder, it's meNights we didn'tAct three: Dulcinea quitsThe second Mrs. de WinterThe two-thousand-pound beeUnwalling Jackson's castleThe fox famrUncouplingSiberian watermelon.
ISBN:
9780241503775 (hbk)9780241503775
Dewey class:
814.6
Language:
English
BRN:
506764
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 814.6 HAU | Available |