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Louise: Amended (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936787012)
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xA young woman recently relocated to California with dreams of becoming a journalist is stricken with a brain trauma and must work to regain her independence in this "must read" memoir (Mary Karr, author of The Liar's Club)
"Having just graduated from college, Krug and her dreamy French boyfriend, Claude (a man given to wearing his button-down shirts buttoned halfway up), leave the flatlands of Kansas for Santa Barbara, California--there, Krug finds a reporting job covering high society 'gardens, weddings, and pets, ' and Claude gets a gig with a local paper. Young, in love, gainfully employed, and living close to the coast, post-collegiate life couldn't be better--day after day 'they drink Mexican beer and wear bathing suits indoors. They do drugs and wander through organic markets, spotting celebrities.' But just weeks after settling in, Krug suffers a 'severe' cavernous angioma in her brain. She gets dizzy, she can't walk, and it soon becomes clear that brain surgery is inevitable, and life will never be the same. In gracefully stark prose, Krug narrates in the third person the implosion of what should've been her gilded life, the sad and prolonged dissolution of her relationship with Claude, and her transformation from 'the kind of girl other girls only pretended to like' to a wife, mother, and PhD candidate back in Kansas. Interspersed throughout are fictional imaginings of the perspectives of her loved ones as she endures numerous surgeries and years of physically and emotionally excruciating rehab. Supplemented with facsimiles of the 'Illustrated Facial Exercises' she used to work damaged muscles, as well as other medical documents, Krug's story is an immediate, unsparing, and beautifully rendered account of loss and recovery. --Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author: Louise Krug
ISBN-10: 1936787016
ISBN-13: 9781936787012
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2012
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.54w x 0.55d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 10/29/2012
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 34
"Having just graduated from college, Krug and her dreamy French boyfriend, Claude (a man given to wearing his button-down shirts buttoned halfway up), leave the flatlands of Kansas for Santa Barbara, California--there, Krug finds a reporting job covering high society 'gardens, weddings, and pets, ' and Claude gets a gig with a local paper. Young, in love, gainfully employed, and living close to the coast, post-collegiate life couldn't be better--day after day 'they drink Mexican beer and wear bathing suits indoors. They do drugs and wander through organic markets, spotting celebrities.' But just weeks after settling in, Krug suffers a 'severe' cavernous angioma in her brain. She gets dizzy, she can't walk, and it soon becomes clear that brain surgery is inevitable, and life will never be the same. In gracefully stark prose, Krug narrates in the third person the implosion of what should've been her gilded life, the sad and prolonged dissolution of her relationship with Claude, and her transformation from 'the kind of girl other girls only pretended to like' to a wife, mother, and PhD candidate back in Kansas. Interspersed throughout are fictional imaginings of the perspectives of her loved ones as she endures numerous surgeries and years of physically and emotionally excruciating rehab. Supplemented with facsimiles of the 'Illustrated Facial Exercises' she used to work damaged muscles, as well as other medical documents, Krug's story is an immediate, unsparing, and beautifully rendered account of loss and recovery. --Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author: Louise Krug
ISBN-10: 1936787016
ISBN-13: 9781936787012
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2012
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.54w x 0.55d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 10/29/2012
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 34
By Louise Krug
xLouise Krug is an Assistant Professor of Nonfiction Writing at Washburn University, in Topeka, Kansas. Some of her recent work has appeared in River Teeth, Word Riot, Parcel, and The Huffington Post. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas with her husband and children.
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