Copyright © 2022 by CJ Hauser
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to New Directions Publishing Corp. for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Tell Them No” from Be With by Forrest Gander, copyright © 1995, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 by Forrest Gander. Excerpt from “The Ivy Crown” from The Collected Poems: Volume II, 1939–1962 by William Carlos Williams, copyright © 1953 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Several pieces originally appeared in the following publications: Electric Literature: “The Man Behind the Curtain” (December 12, 2019) The Guardian: “This Is Small Talk Purgatory: What Tinder Taught Me about Love” (December 7, 2019)
Lit Hub: “My Niece Is Probably the Reincarnation of Shirley Jackson: CJ Hauser on Motherhood and The Haunting of Hill House” (July 2019) The Paris Review: “The Crane Wife” (July 2019); “The Second Mrs. de Winter” (October 13, 2020)
Slice Magazine: “The Mechanicals” (Winter 2014)
Tin House: “Blood: Twenty-six Love Stories from Life” (Winter 2016)
Cover illustration by Megan Galante
Cover design by Emily Mahon
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Hauser, CJ. author.
Title: The crane wife : a memoir in essays / CJ Hauser.
Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, [2022]
Identifiers: LCCN 2021043397 | ISBN 9780385547079 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385547109 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Essays.
Classification: LCC PS3608.A8697 C73 2022 | DDC 814/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021043397
Ebook ISBN 9780385547109
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