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The crane wife : a memoir in essays / CJ Hauser.

by Hauser, CJ, author.

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New York : Doubleday, [2022]

Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.

9780385547079 (hardcover) :

x, 308 pages ; 22 cm

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 farm -- Uncoupling -- Siberian watermelon.

"Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realized shed almost signed up to live someone elses life. In this intimate, frank, and funny memoir in essays, Hauser lets go of traditional narratives of happiness and looks for ways of living that leave room for the unexpected, making plenty of mistakes along the way. She kisses internet strangers and officiates a wedding. She rereads Rebecca to stop fearing her boyfriend's ex-wife and rewinds The Philadelphia Story to understand Katharine Hepburn's shape-shifting relationships. She thinks Florence Nightingale at a robot convention and about grief at John Belushi's rock-and-roll gravesite. She learns to tell the difference between the stories we're asked to hold and those we choose to carry. She writes about friends and lovers, blood family and chosen family, and asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. Told with a late-night barstool directness of your wisest friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone trying, if sometimes failing, to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in."-- Publisher.

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