Splinters : Another kind of love story /
Jamison, Leslie, 1983-
Splinters : Another kind of love story / Leslie Jamison - First edition - 263 pages 22 cm
cataloged 2/20/24 md. new book 2024 spring.
"In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.
How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page, full of linguistic daring and emotional acuity."
0316374881 29.00 9780316374880 (hardcover))
Jamison, Leslie, 1983-
Single mothers--United States--Biography
Women authors--United States--21st century--Biography
Autobiographies.
Splinters : Another kind of love story / Leslie Jamison - First edition - 263 pages 22 cm
cataloged 2/20/24 md. new book 2024 spring.
"In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.
How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page, full of linguistic daring and emotional acuity."
0316374881 29.00 9780316374880 (hardcover))
Jamison, Leslie, 1983-
Single mothers--United States--Biography
Women authors--United States--21st century--Biography
Autobiographies.