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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Vogue, Vulture, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, The Story Exchange, The Messenger, Real Simple, How to Be, BookPage
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters enters a new realm.
In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.
How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page, full of linguistic daring and emotional acuity. Jamison, a master of nonfiction, evinces once again her ability to “stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon” (NPR).
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
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$14.99
Ed Baines –
I felt she really should have emphasized the positives more. Her choice to be a single other but others always had to pick up the slack.
Peach Achoo –
I’m about halfway through this book, and I’m enjoying myself so much. Highly recommend!
L. Heiser –
Well worth your time. A great book with a vulnerable voice. I loved it. Many interesting ideas and thoughts but also deeply fun and engaging
Mama&cubs –
It felt like immersion in total dysfunction but still seeing a glimmer of hope and normalcy. I could have skipped it.
Jane Martinez –
… And excavate for myself. Navigating life and divorce and kids and divorce with kids just begs for painful self excavation and examination, a reframing of who I am and how I interact and what can change, aligned with what should change (and conversely, what can’t change and what should stay the same.)
Much to ponder and ruminate.
carolyn –
As promised, this is an amazing memoir written by a gifted author. Her writing is fluid and poetic. Yet after reading her book, I’m still unsure why she left her husband. While finishing it, I thought I need to go back and re-read it so I can understand it. I feel sympathy for her ex-husband: his first wife was sick and died before his first daughter was three. His second shot at parenthood was destroyed by divorce. The author is almost pathological with her obsession with HER daughter. I hope she works on this, or else she and her daughter are destined for control issues.
A. Onsen –
I love this book. It simply spills into you – like the author is pouring it directly into your bones and brain and soul. Sentence by sentence. Each splinter. Raw hot glowing precise. So much energy in every moment. It feels incredible to read. The author has created something new and special with Splinters. Like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, but with crystalline structures made up of what it feels like to be a parent, a child, a lover, an artist… To fall in love, out of love. To want, to lose, to have, to discover. This is a special book!
missmickee-bookreview –
Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story – Leslie Jamison – 2024 –
Splinters is a dazzling and absorbing narrative and exploration of marriage, new motherhood, and Jamison’s unsettling decision to divorce a loyal spouse. Of course, she is not the first or last to end a marriage based on unreason. In this regard, the memoir is tinged with noticeable grief and sadness. Jamison manages single motherhood, her professional and literary career, exciting international travel to lecture and promote her writing, and more. Jamison holds a PhD in English from Yale University, and is a professor-educator at Colombia University School of the Arts.
Following three years of marital counseling, aside from her own unhappiness, it was unclear why Jamison’s therapist did not advise her that it wasn’t recommended to make life altering decisions during the postpartum period. Her husband, “C” was a successful novelist, a widower and father of a young daughter when he and Jamison married after a whirlwind courtship. (m.2015-20). After the birth of their daughter, Jamison was so hyper-focused on her newborn, breastfeeding, and maternal care– there was little room left in her heart and thought process for anything or anyone else.
The international travel provided a break in her routine, and she flew to Oslo with her baby for a speaking engagement, where the literary male speakers were paid so much more. A friend suggested she google a touring celebrity musician that was eager to meet her. Jamison was flattered and believed every cringeworthy come-on line “the tumbleweed” expressed. Perhaps her education and professional status might give her an advantage in the single mother dating game? Another dismal dating experience she had with the “ex-philosopher” during the pandemic: in his high-rise glass apartment, he claimed he felt nothing for his numerous ex-girlfriends that left various shampoo/conditioner bottles lining his shower.
It was difficult packing for any trip without a partner to hold a parking space. Nonetheless, Jamison felt happy and hopeful as she watched someone dance on the beach to a tune on their boom-box, and her beloved daughter play in the sun with her plastic animals.
Laurence Kirshbaum –
I keep coming back to this book. It’s a love story of a mother and baby daughter, but it’s also a brilliant writer’s coming to understand that life is appreciating the small often tedious details in which after the sun goes down, there is still the beautiful and promising night to behold.
Reese –
Jamison’s new book puts me in mind of what a counselor once asked me which was, “How do you spell love?” I replied, because I was fighting getting sober and not losing the things I loved—
“Everyone knows. It’s a dumb question…L.O.V.E.”
“Wrong,” she said. “You spell it like this:
W.O.R.K.”
This book is a work of lust and fear—love and truth. It sings.