The Crying Book
'Luminous. . . A literary lachrymatory, both consoling and surprisingly uplifting' Hephzibah Anderson, ObserverHeather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen-tear-shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear-collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women's tears play in racist…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4721-5471-2
- EAN: 9781472154712
- Produktnummer: 33504189
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm
Über den Autor
Heather Christle is the author of the poetry collections The Difficult Farm; The Trees The Trees, which won the Believer Poetry Award; What Is Amazing; and Heliopause. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, London Review of Books, Poetry and many other journals. She teaches creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. The Crying Book is her first book of non-fiction.
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