Jill Christman

If This Were Fiction (eBook, PDF)

A Love Story in Essays

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

2023 Heartland Booksellers Award finalist Foreword INDIES Silver Winner in Autobiography and Memoir Winner of a 2023 Book of the Year Award from Chicago Writers AssociationIf This Were Fiction is a love story-for Jill Christman's long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. In these pages there are fatal accidents and miraculous births; a grief pilgrimage that takes Christman to jungles, volcanoes, and caves in Central America; and meditations on everything from sexual trauma and the more benign accidents of childhood to gun violence, indoor cycling, unlikely romance, and even a ghost or two. Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction focuses an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Christman's first fifty years and sends out a message of love, power, and hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496233233
• Artikelnr.: 72446326

Autorenporträt

Jill Christman is the author of two memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, a senior editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, and executive producer for the podcast Indelible: Campus Sexual Violence.  

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. since feeling is first
The Sloth
Going Back to Plum Island
The Surprise Baby
The River Cave
Bird Girls
Life’s Not a Paragraph
Part II. we are for each other
Family Portrait
The Eleven-Minute Crib Nap
The Googly Eye
A Stone Pear
Leading the Children Out of Town
Slaughterhouse Island
Part III. And death i think is no parenthesis
The Avocado
The Baby and the Alligator
Aiskhyne
The Lucky Ones
Naked Underneath Our Clothes
Spinning
Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments