The point was that we both understood how easy it is to let your life pass along, totally in book, unless you take a risk, disrupt the expected patterns, and try to make something human happen.

—  CJ Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays (Doubleday, July 12, 2022)

Notes:

• Highly recommended. And if you can, listen on Audible.
• A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN
• Guardian Book Review July 19, 2022: The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser review – frank and funny essays on doomed romances.