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It examines the near-simultaneous arrival of new motherhood and the end of her marriage, along with desire, work and divorce.
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Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Splinters
Another Kind of Love Story
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Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Book Group)
Splinters is a memoir by the essayist Leslie Jamison, published by Little, Brown and Company in February 2024.
- Published
- 2024
- Pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Leslie Jamison made her name as an essayist of pain and empathy, and Splinters turns that scrutiny on her own life at its most fractured: new motherhood arriving almost simultaneously with the end of her marriage.
The book moves in shards - the title is exact - assembling early parenthood, divorce, desire and work into a portrait of a self being remade under pressure.
Jamison resists the tidy arc, letting contradiction stand: the exhaustion and the awe, the freedom and the grief. intendle recommends it for readers who want the essay form at full stretch, thinking in real time about love and ambivalence. Named to TIME's 100 Must-Read Books and The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2024, it confirms Jamison as one of the finest nonfiction writers at work.
Intimate, restless and formally alive, it finds language for the ordinary catastrophe of a life coming apart and together at once.
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Pages
272
Published
2024
Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Book Group)
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Format
Hardcover
First edition
Language
English
Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
ISBN
978-0316374880
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