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If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496232359)
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x2023 Heartland Booksellers Award finalist
Foreword INDIES Silver Winner in Autobiography and Memoir
Winner of a 2023 Book of the Year Award from Chicago Writers Association If This Were Fiction is a love story--for Jill Christman's long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. In these pages there are fatal accidents and miraculous births; a grief pilgrimage that takes Christman to jungles, volcanoes, and caves in Central America; and meditations on everything from sexual trauma and the more benign accidents of childhood to gun violence, indoor cycling, unlikely romance, and even a ghost or two. Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction focuses an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Christman's first fifty years and sends out a message of love, power, and hope.
Author: Jill Christman
ISBN-10: 1496232356
ISBN-13: 9781496232359
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d
Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Silver Medal Winner
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/13/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Foreword INDIES Silver Winner in Autobiography and Memoir
Winner of a 2023 Book of the Year Award from Chicago Writers Association If This Were Fiction is a love story--for Jill Christman's long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. In these pages there are fatal accidents and miraculous births; a grief pilgrimage that takes Christman to jungles, volcanoes, and caves in Central America; and meditations on everything from sexual trauma and the more benign accidents of childhood to gun violence, indoor cycling, unlikely romance, and even a ghost or two. Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction focuses an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Christman's first fifty years and sends out a message of love, power, and hope.
Author: Jill Christman
ISBN-10: 1496232356
ISBN-13: 9781496232359
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d
Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Silver Medal Winner
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/13/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
By Jill Christman
xJill Christman is the author of two memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, a senior editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, and executive producer for the podcast Indelible: Campus Sexual Violence.
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