{"product_id":"mothers-and-other-fictional-characters-a-memoir-in-essays-paperback","title":"Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays - 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\u003eNicole Graev Lipson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sensitive, searingly intelligent, and beautifully written.\" --Claire Dederer, author of \u003ci\u003eMonsters: A Fan's Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is--for real--a masterwork, one I will return to over and over.\" --Joanna Rakoff, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Salinger Year\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks through the ready-made stories of womanhood, rescuing truth from the fiction that infiltrates our lives.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does it take to escape the plotlines mapped onto us? Searching for clues in the work of her literary foremothers, Lipson untangles what it means to be a girl, a woman, a lover, a partner, a daughter, and a mother in a world all too ready to reduce us to stock characters. Whether she's testing the fragile borders of fidelity, embracing the taboo power of female friendship, escaping her family for the solitude of the mountains, grappling with what to do with her frozen embryos, or letting go of the children she imagined for the ones she's raising, Lipson pushes beyond the easy, surface stories we tell about ourselves to brave less certain territory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Lipson journeys through this thorny terrain, literature becomes her lodestar. Kate Chopin's erotic story \"The Storm\" helps her reckon with the longings stirring below the surface of her marriage. Watching her son absorb the stifling codes of manhood, she finds unlikely parenting inspiration in Philip Roth's most cartoonish overbearing mother. Summoning Gwendolyn Brooks, she asks, \u003ci\u003eCan destroying one's frozen embryos be understood as a maternal act?\u003c\/i\u003e And accompanied by Shakespeare's gender-bending heroine Rosalind, she seizes on the truest meaning of loving her oldest child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Risky and revealing, nourishing and affirming, rigorous and sexy, \u003ci\u003eMothers and Other Fictional Characters\u003c\/i\u003e is a shimmering love letter to our forgotten selves--and the ones we're still becoming.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicole Graev Lipson's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, among other venues. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, nominated for a National Magazine Award, and selected for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives outside of Boston with her family. \u003cbr\u003e\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 0.7 x 8.5 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987471040813,"sku":"9781797228563","price":19.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/zVeTWqsi3S9781797228563.webp?v=1776178905","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/mothers-and-other-fictional-characters-a-memoir-in-essays-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}