{"product_id":"splinters-another-kind-of-love-story-9780316374880","title":"Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Recovering \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material--scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books--\u003ci\u003eSplinters\u003c\/i\u003e enters a new realm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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: pumping breastmilk in a shared university office, driving the open highway in the throes of new love, growing a tender second skin of consciousness as she watches her daughter come alive to the world. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e seems to have been coined, \u003ci\u003eSplinters\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page. Jamison has delivered a book with the linguistic daring and emotional acuity that made \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Recovering \u003c\/i\u003einstant classics, even as she reaches new depths of understanding, piercing the reader to the core. A master of nonfiction, she evinces once again her ability to \"stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon\" (NPR).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316374880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Leslie Jamison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43433804529845,"sku":"9780316374880","price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d95f97c9-58cb-4980-95d1-d81a66790f01.jpg?v=1703569571","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/splinters-another-kind-of-love-story-9780316374880","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}