World Literature Today · 2001 · 113 citations · 0 references
Magical MarriageHuman RelationshipsLiterary TheoryHumanitiesExistentialismLiterary HistoryLiterary CriticismLiterary StudyHuman ConditionNarrative And IdentityPoeticsLanguage StudiesExtraordinary ManArtsLife WritingBroken Heart
About the Book These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as the woman I was to become.