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The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir

The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir - Paperback

by Jill Christman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jill ChristmanSeries:American LivesPublish date:3/1/2026Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496246790ISBN-10:1496246799UPC:9781496246790Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Women, ParentingBook Topic:MotherhoodSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCKDNKFXJF

The Heart Folds Early: A Memoir

This book is about what it means to make a choice. As mothers, how do we carry life and death in our bodies and survive with our hearts intact?

The Heart Folds Early is a story of transformation through tragedy, and an examination of the way in which great loss can make us simultaneously fearful and intrepid. Emerging from a childhood that included both devastating sexual abuse and the sustaining...

Series: American Lives
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496246790ISBN-10:1496246799UPC:9781496246790Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Women, ParentingBook Topic:MotherhoodSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCKDNKFXJF

Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Nebraska, 2022), Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, where she serves as editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things.


Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Jill Christman

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