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After the Happily Ever After
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“In this moving memoir filled with heartbreak, humor, and hope, Crane chronicles in real-time her journey through the ending of her 15-year marriage. Through vivid vignettes of memories and of present moments, she gives us an intimate look into her emotions and actions through the break-up. She explores how sometimes what we remember is not exactly what was. And as the title suggests, she recognizes how the landscape will change, and has changed, as days, months, years pass, and how she continues to change and her memories continue to change as her story unfolds. The happily-ever-after marriage she once expected is gone, and in its wake follow new, unexpected, and joyful life stories. Sad and uplifting at once, this warm and honest story is a reminder that life is messy.”
— Nancy • Raven Book Store
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.
Elizabeth Crane is the author of six works of fiction, most recently the novel The History of Great Things and the story collection Turf. She is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library Foundation 21st Century Award. Her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and adapted for the stage by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. Her novel We Only Know So Much has been adapted for film. She teaches in the low-residency master's program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert. She lives in Upstate New York.
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