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This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admission-I'm not happy-changes everything. Suddenly she finds herself separated and in couples therapy, living in an apartment in the city with an old friend and his kid. It's understood that the apartment and bonus family are temporary, but the situation brings unexpected comfort and much-needed healing for wounds even older than her marriage.
Crafting the story as the very events chronicled are unfolding, Crane writes from a place of guarded possibility, capturing through vignettes and collected moments a semblance of the real-time practice of healing. At turns funny and dark, with moments of poignancy, This Story Will Change is an unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in transformation, a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change.
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admission-I'm not happy-changes everything. Suddenly she finds herself separated and in couples therapy, living in an apartment in the city with an old friend and his kid. It's understood that the apartment and bonus family are temporary, but the situation brings unexpected comfort and much-needed healing for wounds even older than her marriage.
Crafting the story as the very events chronicled are unfolding, Crane writes from a place of guarded possibility, capturing through vignettes and collected moments a semblance of the real-time practice of healing. At turns funny and dark, with moments of poignancy, This Story Will Change is an unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in transformation, a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change.
Editorial Reviews
"At turns funny and dark, This Story Will Change is a poignant portrait of a woman in transformation and a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change." -PureWow
"This Story Will Change captures the long arc of a marriage and its messy, human ending: ambivalence, heartbreak, deep grief and unexpected flashes of hope and joy . . . Elizabeth Crane's wry, vulnerable memoir chronicles the dissolution of her marriage in sharp, intimate detail." -Shelf Awareness
"In this gorgeous, impressionistic memoir, fiction writer Crane turns to nonfiction to investigate her marriage and its dissolution . . . [She] resists cliché and refuses easy resolution, offering instead a fractured yet richly drawn portrait of a painful year and its surprising gifts." -Booklist (starred review)
"Divorce memoirs come in two main flavors: the doers and the done-to. This is definitely a done-to, with torrents of internal monologue revisiting and rehashing conversations and events, and the author renders it all compellingly and insightfully. Readers who have enjoyed Crane's path through autobiographical fiction are sure to love this refreshing memoir . . . Reading about another person's pain should not be this enjoyable, but Crane's writing, full of wit and charm, makes it so." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"All memoirs claim to be true stories, but I haven't read a truer story than this one. I laugh-cried and cry-cried. Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change is not a divorce book. There is no praying, but there is definitely some eating-and plenty of loving, though not in, as she writes, a ‘losing one dude and then meeting a new dude and then everything is better' kind of way. What there is, in spades, is truth. And the truth is, the story-the life-changes, and it will keep changing." -Maggie Smith, author of Keep Moving
"Elizabeth Crane has written a book that feels like intimate company and impossible grace. It's also impossible to put down. The momentum of this book doesn't come from making us wonder how the story ends, but from its insistence that the end of the story is just the beginning. Crane is hilarious, generous, and constantly attuned to the complexities and absurdities of her life. In the fragments of this book, she has done the remarkable work of finding a structure that feels like the texture of thought itself: the way the mind returns to the sce...
"This Story Will Change captures the long arc of a marriage and its messy, human ending: ambivalence, heartbreak, deep grief and unexpected flashes of hope and joy . . . Elizabeth Crane's wry, vulnerable memoir chronicles the dissolution of her marriage in sharp, intimate detail." -Shelf Awareness
"In this gorgeous, impressionistic memoir, fiction writer Crane turns to nonfiction to investigate her marriage and its dissolution . . . [She] resists cliché and refuses easy resolution, offering instead a fractured yet richly drawn portrait of a painful year and its surprising gifts." -Booklist (starred review)
"Divorce memoirs come in two main flavors: the doers and the done-to. This is definitely a done-to, with torrents of internal monologue revisiting and rehashing conversations and events, and the author renders it all compellingly and insightfully. Readers who have enjoyed Crane's path through autobiographical fiction are sure to love this refreshing memoir . . . Reading about another person's pain should not be this enjoyable, but Crane's writing, full of wit and charm, makes it so." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"All memoirs claim to be true stories, but I haven't read a truer story than this one. I laugh-cried and cry-cried. Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change is not a divorce book. There is no praying, but there is definitely some eating-and plenty of loving, though not in, as she writes, a ‘losing one dude and then meeting a new dude and then everything is better' kind of way. What there is, in spades, is truth. And the truth is, the story-the life-changes, and it will keep changing." -Maggie Smith, author of Keep Moving
"Elizabeth Crane has written a book that feels like intimate company and impossible grace. It's also impossible to put down. The momentum of this book doesn't come from making us wonder how the story ends, but from its insistence that the end of the story is just the beginning. Crane is hilarious, generous, and constantly attuned to the complexities and absurdities of her life. In the fragments of this book, she has done the remarkable work of finding a structure that feels like the texture of thought itself: the way the mind returns to the sce...
