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Leslie Jamison's new book, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story , is out now.
The author talks about the moments in which we find ourselves “challenged and rearranged.” Splinters consists of a series of essays, structured to evoke “experiences that lodge inside of you and become part of you, but often in a quite painful or broken way.
There is always kind of a thrill in those moments where we aren’t quite who we think we are.
Structure of this book allowed me to tell only parts of the story, and not every part of it.
Not every relationship accrues value by adhering to a sort of heteronormative social script.
The subtitle of this book means so much to me. Replacing the work of seeking purity or innocence with muddling through, I think that’s most of my adult life. I’m excited to talk about this book as a love story that looks a little different than most of our love stories. I'm imagining that reader who I don't know and might never meet who sees the book and thinks, “Huh, another kind of love story. Maybe this book is for me”.
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