Tré Miller Rodriguez

Splitting the Difference (eBook, ePUB)

A Heart-Shaped Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At 18, Tré Miller-Rodríguez gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. At 19, her only sibling was killed in a car crash. At 34, she lost her husband to a sudden heart attack. Then, at 36, her now-teenaged daughter found her on Facebookand began to reshape the course of Tré's life. With sharp, immediate prose, Tré unpacks the experience of being young and widowed in New York City: the "dumb sh*% people say"; the "brave face" she wears to work and social events; the solace she doesn't find in one-night stands; and how her perspective only begins to shift when she spontaneously brings Alberto's ashes on a trip and sets into motion the ritual of spreading him in bodies of water around the world. Once she's begun, Tré discovers that traveling to her bucket list destinationsplaces like Savannah, Brazil, and Cubais a viable strategy for facing her roughest days, and her loss of her husband becomes a lens through which she begins to view her past and embrace her future. By the end of her journey, Tré has quit her corporate job, explored Alberto's homeland of Cuba, and joyfully reunited with her biological daughter in North Carolina. Equal parts inspiring, irreverent, and heart-rending, Splitting the Difference is written with the "raw-thenticity" of a woman transformed by heartbreak and inspired by love's legacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 293
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781938314216
• Artikelnr.: 41345747

Autorenporträt

Tré Miller Rodríguez was born in California and lives in New York City. An award-winning copywriter and UC Berkeley graduate, her essays have appeared in Manhattan Magazine, and on The Daily Beast and WhiteElephantInTheRoom.com. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Sunday Mourning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 1
Dumb Sh*% People Say . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 61
I'm the White Elephant in the Room? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 77
Ring on the Right Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 111
The Cruelest Month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 133
Meltdowns & Melanoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 147
Fight or Flight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Travel as Prozac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 179
(Not) Home for the Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 193
Lost & Found in Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 205
Thanks for the Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 219
Striped Shirts & Epitaphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 243
Waking Up in Havana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 259
Heart-Shaped Gratitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 281
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 283