Vessels: A Love Story

When Dan, a writer with a passion for underground comics, and his wife Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, met through a mutual friend, they swiftly fell in love. "Of all the women I've ever met," Dan told a friend, "she's the first one who felt like family." But at Christmas, as they prepared for the birth of their first child, tragedy struck.

Based on Daniel Raeburn's acclaimed New Yorker essay, Vessels: A Love Story is the story of how he and Bekah clashed and clung to each other through a series of unsuccessful pregnancies before finally, joyfully, becoming parents. In prose as handsomely unadorned as his wife's pottery, Raeburn recounts a marriage cemented by the same events that nearly broke it.

Vessels is an unflinching, enormously moving account of intimacy, endurance, and love.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/14/2016
ISBN: 9780393285383
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2015
Publishers Weekly 01/11/2016
Booklist 02/01/2016 pg. 7
Shelf Awareness 03/22/2016