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The Crane Wife : : a Memoir in Essays

Hauser, CJ. Book - 2022 814.6 Ha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Essays / Hauser, CJ 4 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.6 out of 5

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Blood: twenty-seven love stories -- Act one: the mechanicals -- Hepburn qua Hepburn -- The man behind the curtain -- The crane wife -- Kind of deep blue -- Act two: The Fantasticks -- The lady with the lamp -- Mulder, it's me -- Nights we didn't -- Act three: Dulcinea quits -- The second Mrs. de Winter -- The two-thousand-pound bee -- Unwalling Jackson's castle -- The fox farm -- Uncoupling -- Siberian watermelon.
"CJ Hauser expands on her viral essay sensation, "The Crane Wife," in a brilliant collection of essays that echo the work of Cheryl Strayed in their revelatory observations of romantic love. 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. With unlikely guides from Katharine Hepburn to Defense Department robots to whooping cranes to golden era SNL comedians to Special Agent Dana Scully, 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. A book for anyone who's ever been in love with love, anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would, and anyone who ever wondered: am I doing this right?"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents: Blood: twenty-seven love stories. -- Act one: the mechanicals. -- Hepburn qua Hepburn. -- Man behind the curtain. -- Kind of deep blue. -- Act two: The Fantasticks. -- Lady with the lamp. -- Mulder, it's me. -- Nights we didn't. -- Act three: Dulcinea quits.

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Here's the thing: submitted by synwong on June 28, 2024, 11:08am The titular essay, published in the Paris Review, had me in thrall when it first came out. As a fellow essay writer, I was eager for the full collection. The prose is lucid, but the content is lacking and repetitive. Did not meet expectations.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: x, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385547079
0385547072

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hauser, CJ.

SUBJECTS
Hauser, CJ.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Essays.