Bibliograph

The crane wife, a memoir in essays, Christina Joyce Hauser

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The crane wife, a memoir in essays, Christina Joyce Hauser

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

The crane wife

Oclc number

1314286949

Responsibility statement

Christina Joyce Hauser

Sub title

a memoir in essays

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

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 famr -- Uncoupling -- Siberian watermelon

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