The wrong way to save your life
Subtitle: essays
By: Megan Stielstra
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780062429209
Subjects: Essays; Women storytellers; Biography
Description: "From an important new American writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice. In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal as she grapples toward a better way to live. In her titular piece "The Wrong Way To Save Your Life," she answers the question of what has value in our lives?a question no longer rhetorical when the apartment above her family?s goes up in flames. "Here is My Heart" sheds light on Megan?s close relationship with her father, whose continued insistence on climbing mountains despite a series of heart attacks leads the author to dissect deer hearts in a poetic attempt to interrogate her own feelings about mortality. Whether she's imagining the implications of open-carry laws on college campuses, recounting the story of going underwater on the mortgage of her first home, or revealing the unexpected pains and joys of marriage and motherhood, Stielstra's work informs, impels, enlightens, and embraces us all. The result is something beautiful?this story, her courage, and, potentially, our own. ntellectually fierce and viscerally intimate, Megan Stielstra's voice is witty, wise, warm, and above all, achingly human."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290).
Table of contents: title: I am still fighting with my big and small fears --; title: ten, or The little girl character --; title: Here is my heart --; title: F --; title: Stand here to save lives --; title: twenty, or Good Lord, it's me, Jane --; title: Como questo --; title: the buildup to and takeaway from --; title: This essay is done --; title: thirty, or Come here fear --; title: Course of one's life --; title: The blogger's wife --; title: What belongs to us --; title: forty, or Optimist --; title: Real and imaginary ghosts --; title: We say and do kind things --; title: The wrong way to save your life --; title: Appendix: Tools or weapons, depending on your translation.