It happened at my grandfathers deathbed.
It happened at my daughters birth.
I met my husband.
Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
I became a stepmother.
I had a baby girl.
But eventually, I realized that it was just as interested in whats right in front of us.
Little, Brown and Company
How do we keep showing up for our daily lives?
How do we keep reinventing them?
If this book began as an exploration of longing, then it ended up becoming an exploration of dwelling.
We can break through marriage into marriage, writes poet Jack Gilbert.
For me, the notion of making life scream is less about pain and more about urgency.
Its about looking at something so closely that you feel it starting to smolder under your gaze.
It was what I wanted to do in this book: Make life scream.
Leslie Jamison
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