{"product_id":"joy-rides-through-the-tunnel-of-grief-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Hendry Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief \u003c\/i\u003eis a fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson's father dies from an accident caused by complications from alcoholism, she knows immediately she has inherited his love--that it left his body, traveled through the air, and entered her own. And so, she needs a place to put it. She needs to know what to do with it, how not to waste it, how to make something with it, how to honor it and put language to it. So, she places it with her brother, Eric, whose opioid addiction makes his death feel always imminent. With her partner, Jack, together for fifteen years. With her exhausted, grieving mother, her best friend Jessie, women at the gym she's never had the courage to speak to, but loves completely. But mostly, she places it with her future child, the one she does not yet have but deeply wants. The child who is both the question of love--and the answer to it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo, when Jack suddenly confesses that he does not want to have children--not with her, not ever--the someday vessel for her boundless and insatiable love hunger swiftly disappears, taking with it a fundamental promise of her life: motherhood. \u003ci\u003eJoy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief \u003c\/i\u003ecatalyzes from this place. Fluidly navigating through past, present, and future, Nelson asks: Where does her desire to have a child come from? How does wonder charge and change a life? Are the imperatives to make art and to make a child born from the same searching place? Are they both masked and misguided attempts to thwart death? Nelson investigates the tremulous makings and unmakings of our most intense and fragile bonds--family, friends, lovers--with searing insight, humor, and tenderness.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJESSICA HENDRY NELSON is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eIf Only You People Could Follow Directions\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eAdvanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers' Guide and Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e with coauthor Sean Prentiss. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eThreeepenny Review, North American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MFA Program at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985738236205,"sku":"9780820365473","price":25.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/fDVGLzys9G9780820365473.webp?v=1776138760","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/joy-rides-through-the-tunnel-of-grief-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}