Summary
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 clin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241503775 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241503779 |
| Author: | Christina Joyce Hauser |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 19 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 222mm |
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I absolutely LOVED these essays. I knew I ought to ration myself to one a day in order to prolong the joy and fascination of them, but I just couldn’t: I had to carry on reading and reading, like eating a whole packet of jelly babies in one sitting. What a fantastic, original, funny and touching voice! C J Hauser is a wondrous writer. This book will give so much happiness -CRESSIDA CONNOLLY, AUTHOR OF AFTER THE PARTY
Compassionate and funny and brave. The book is a masterclass in life writing, and a lesson in how to live a life outside the narratives that would contain us. CJ is a master story weaver. I was left wanting more, in the best way possible -CHARLIE GILMOUR, AUTHOR OF FEATHERHOOD
Bold and brilliant and psychologically exquisite, CJ Hauser is a deeply gifted and generous writer. THE CRANE WIFE is enthralling. -CHARLOTTE FOX WEBER, AUTHOR OF WHAT WE WANT
In The Crane Wife, Hauser undertakes a new way for her to tell stories from her life, playing with history and personal history, exploring the possible hidden truths in her family’s past and her own. The result is like interconnected short stories but about her life, the person she is and was, maybe even the person she never knew herself to be. Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary. -ALEXANDER CHEE, AUTHOR OF QUEEN OF THE NIGHT AND HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL
The Crane Wife more than delivers on the immense promise of the viral essay that served as its source. My goodness is it funny, but also so devastatingly honest and bracing. Reading it is like taking a long road trip with your wisest, sharpest friend and talking the entire way. -R. ERIC THOMAS, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HERE FOR IT
The Crane Wife is brilliant and beautiful - the vulnerability of her viral essay is expanded to include immense humour, pondering and further misadventures of the heart. An absolute must-read. I will be gifting this book all year long -FRANCES CHA, INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF IF I HAD YOUR FACE
About The Author
Christina Joyce Hauser
CJ HAUSER teaches creative writing at Colgate University and lives in Hamilton, NY. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College and PhD from Florida State. She has published two novels, Family of Origin and The From-Aways. In 2019 she published a viral essay, “The Crane Wife,” in the Paris Review, about her decision to call off her wedding and go on an expedition to study the whooping crane. The essay reached over a million readers and was recommended online by the likes of Roxane Gay, Busy Phillips and Caitlin Moran. The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays is her first work of full-length non-fiction.
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