The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

A Time Most Anticipated Book of 2022 CJ Hauser expands on her viral sensation The Crane Wife with seventeen further essays in this intimate, frank, and funny book about love in the twenty-first centuryAn elegant masterpieceWry but also warm and generous. Roxane Gay, New York Times bestsellingauthor of HungerTen days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realized she'd almost signed up to live someone else's life.In this intimate, frank, and funnymemoir-in-essays,Hauserreleases herself from traditional narratives of happiness and goes looking forways of living that leave room for the unexpected, making plenty of mistakes along the way.She kisses Internet strangers and officiates at a wedding. She rereads...