'A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth' Lena Dunham 'I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.' A young woman moves from the countryside to the city. Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life. Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men's clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile - and a long-term girlfriend. With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love.
Chloe Caldwell Boeken
Chloe Caldwells werk duikt in de diepten van intieme ervaringen en complexe interpersoonlijke dynamieken, gekenmerkt door rauwe eerlijkheid en een scherpzinnig inzicht in de menselijke psyche. Ze schrijft met een onbevreesde authenticiteit die lezers naar de kern van haar personages en hun dilemma's trekt. Haar proza wordt geprezen om zijn gedurfde openhartigheid en zijn vermogen om de subtiele nuances van menselijke emoties vast te leggen. Caldwell verkent thema's als identiteit, verlangen en het vinden van je plek in de wereld met een onderscheidende stem.
Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year AwardIn 1967, Joan Didion wrote an essay called Goodbye to All That , a work of such candid and penetrating prose that it soon became the gold standard for personal essays. Like no other story before it, Didion’s tale of loving and leaving New York captured the mesmerizing allure Manhattan has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits.In this captivating collection, 28 writers take up Didion’s literary legacy by sharing their own New York stories. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered—the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.They also share the grief that comes when the metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York’s frenetic life wear thin on even the most fervent dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love—still— remains just out of reach, each writer’s goodbye to New York is singular and universal, like New York itself.With Cheryl Strayed, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, Ann Hood, and more.