Hard to love : essays and confessions
(Book)
Published
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2019.
Status
Westover - Adult Nonfiction
814 HOPPE
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814 HOPPE
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Published
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Description
Sometimes it seems like there are two American creeds, self-reliance and marriage, and neither of them is mine. I experience myself as someone formed and sustained by others' love and patience, by student loans and stipends, by the kindness of strangers. Briallen Hopper's Hard to Love honors the categories of loves and relationships beyond marriage, the ones that are often treated as invisible or seen as secondary--friendships, kinship with adult siblings, care teams that form in times of illness, or various alternative family formations. She also values difficult and amorphous loves like loving a challenging job or inanimate objects that can't love you back. She draws from personal experience, sharing stories about her loving but combative family, the fiercely independent Emerson scholar who pushed her away, and the friends who have become her invented or found family; pop culture touchstones like the Women's March, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, and the timeless series Cheers; and the work of writers like Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks, Flannery O'Connor, and Herman Melville (Moby-Dick like you've never seen it!). Hard to Love pays homage and attention to unlikely friends and lovers both real and fictional. It is a series of love letters to the meaningful, if underappreciated, forms of intimacy and community that are tricky, tangled, and tough, but ultimately sustaining. -- from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hopper, B. E. (2019). Hard to love: essays and confessions . Bloomsbury Publishing Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hopper, Briallen Elisabeth, 1978-. 2019. Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hopper, Briallen Elisabeth, 1978-. Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hopper, Briallen Elisabeth. Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2019.
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