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The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
C.J. Hauser
★★★★· Published 2022· 319 pages· read 2022
Essays circling a called-off wedding, marriage, and how we love. The title essay alone is worth it.
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Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
Mary Laura Philpott
Philpott's essays on anxiety, aging parents, and loving people in a fragile world. Warm and quietly wise.
Nothing Good Can Come from This
Kristi Coulter
Sharp, funny essays about drinking, quitting, and being a high-achieving woman in a world that hands you wine for everything. Coulter is very good company.
First Love: Essays on Friendship
Lilly Dancyger
Essays about female friendship, each one anchored in a real friend of Dancyger's, including the cousin she adored who was murdered at twenty. Grief-streaked and unflinching about how much these loves shape us.