Megan Stielstra

The Wrong Way to Save Your Life (eBook, ePUB)

Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this intellectually daring, viscerally intimate collection, Megan Stielstra interrogates her own fear in stories both personal and universal as she searches for a better way to live. The titular piece answers the question of what has value in our liveswhich is no longer rhetorical when the Chicago apartment above her family's bursts into flames. The essay Here Is My Heart details her close relationship with her father, a big-game hunter in Alaska who continues to climb mountains despite his heart problems, leading the author to dissect deer hearts in a poetic examination of mortality.

Whether imagining the implications of open-carry laws on college campuses, recounting the story of losing her first home during the recession, or shining a light on the complexities of postpartum depression tangled with the fierce joys of motherhood, Stielstra's work informs, impels, and embraces us all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062429216
• Artikelnr.: 47600570

Autorenporträt

Megan Stielstra is the author of Once I Was Cool and Everyone Remain Calm. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Guernica, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Northwestern University.