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If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays

If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays - Paperback

by Jill Christman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jill ChristmanSeries:American LivesPublish date:2022-09-01Pages:228
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496232359ISBN-10:1496232356UPC:9781496232359Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, WomenAward:2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Silver Medal Winner - Autobiography/Memoir AwardSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCS7WGBSMN
2023 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496232359ISBN-10:1496232356UPC:9781496232359Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, WomenAward:2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Silver Medal Winner - Autobiography/Memoir AwardSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCS7WGBSMN
Jill 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.

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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🏆 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Silver Medal Winner - Autobiography/Memoir Award

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