{"product_id":"9780316374989","title":"Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Recovering \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of \u003ci\u003eLit\u003c\/i\u003e), the “piercing, intimate” story (\u003ci\u003eTIME Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Leslie Jamison is among our most beloved contemporary voices, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. In \u003ci\u003eSplinters, \u003c\/i\u003eJamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of her most intimate relationships: new motherhood, a ruptured marriage, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once, Jamison juxtaposes the magical and the mundane in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, a deep reckoning that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e How do we move forward into joy while haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the term \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e seems to have been coined,\u003ci\u003e Splinters \u003c\/i\u003eplumbs these questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page, full of the linguistic daring and emotional acuity that made \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Recovering\u003c\/i\u003e instant classics. A master of nonfiction, Jamison evinces once again her ability to “stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon” (NPR).","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369990033469,"sku":"9780316374989","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780316374989_p0.jpg?v=1771583219","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780316374989","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}