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The crane wife : a memoir in essays

Hauser, CJ2023
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Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funny memoir in essays, CJ Hauser releases herself from her story of 'how life was supposed to be'. She goes looking for more honest ways of living, for new definitions of love. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She rereads 'Rebecca' in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine 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.
Main title:
The crane wife : a memoir in essays / Christina Joyce Hauser.
Author:
Hauser, CJ, author
Imprint:
London : Viking, 2023.
Collation:
336 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780241503782 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
814.6B
Language:
English
BRN:
2606535
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