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Crane Wife

Christina Joyce Hauser
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      'Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous' Roxane Gay'Frank, funny, enthralling... Think of it as rehab for road-weary romantics, inviting us to redefine what constitutes a love story' Observer'Warning: you will WhatsApp multiple quotes to your friends from your sun-lounger' IndependentTen 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 lets go of 'how life was supposed to be' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. She writes about friends and lovers, ghosts and robots, grief and heartbreak, blood family and chosen family, and asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. The Crane Wife is a book for anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would; for anyone trying, if sometimes failing, to find joy in the unexpected. 'CJ Hauser understands that there are so many different ways to love and live, and her words make all of them exciting possibilities.' Natasha Lunn, bestselling author of CONVERSATIONS ON LOVE'Universal and exciting... The Crane Wife will satisfy and inspire anyone who has ever asked, 'How did I get here, and what happens now?' New York Times 'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee'Intimate, witty and beautifully crafted' Elle'Intimate, wry, compassionate... a book you want to press into friends' hands' Irish Mail on Sunday
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Christina Joyce Hauser EAN: 9780241503775 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 427 g HEIGHT: 222 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-07-14 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, HUMOR / Form / Essays WIDTH: 144 cm SPINE:

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      Memoirs, Literary essays, Feminism and feminist theory, Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues

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      CJ HAUSER teaches creative writing at Colgate University and lives in Hamilton, NY. They received their MFA from Brooklyn College and PhD from Florida State. They have published two novels, Family of Origin and The From-Aways. In 2019 they published a viral essay, The Crane Wife, in the Paris Review, about their decision to call off their wedding and go on an expedition to study the whooping crane. The essay reached over a million readers, was shared by 538 journalists from 293 different outlets all over the world, and recommended online by the likes of Roxane Gay, Busy Phillips and Caitlin Moran. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays is their first work of full-length non-fiction.
      'Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous' Roxane Gay'Frank, funny, enthralling... Think of it as rehab for road-weary romantics, inviting us to redefine what constitutes a love story' Observer'Warning: you will WhatsApp multiple quotes to your friends from your sun-lounger' IndependentTen 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 lets go of 'how life was supposed to be' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. She writes about friends and lovers, ghosts and robots, grief and heartbreak, blood family and chosen family, and asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. The Crane Wife is a book for anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would; for anyone trying, if sometimes failing, to find joy in the unexpected. 'CJ Hauser understands that there are so many different ways to love and live, and her words make all of them exciting possibilities.' Natasha Lunn, bestselling author of CONVERSATIONS ON LOVE'Universal and exciting... The Crane Wife will satisfy and inspire anyone who has ever asked, 'How did I get here, and what happens now?' New York Times 'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee'Intimate, witty and beautifully crafted' Elle'Intimate, wry, compassionate... a book you want to press into friends' hands' Irish Mail on Sunday
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Christina Joyce Hauser EAN: 9780241503775 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 427 g HEIGHT: 222 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-07-14 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, HUMOR / Form / Essays WIDTH: 144 cm SPINE:

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      Memoirs, Literary essays, Feminism and feminist theory, Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues

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      CJ HAUSER teaches creative writing at Colgate University and lives in Hamilton, NY. They received their MFA from Brooklyn College and PhD from Florida State. They have published two novels, Family of Origin and The From-Aways. In 2019 they published a viral essay, The Crane Wife, in the Paris Review, about their decision to call off their wedding and go on an expedition to study the whooping crane. The essay reached over a million readers, was shared by 538 journalists from 293 different outlets all over the world, and recommended online by the likes of Roxane Gay, Busy Phillips and Caitlin Moran. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays is their first work of full-length non-fiction.

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