If This Were Fiction
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If This Were Fiction

A Love Story in Essays

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If This Were Fiction

A Love Story in Essays

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About This Book

2023 Heartland Booksellers Award finalist
Foreword INDIES Silver Winner in Autobiography and Memoir
Winner of a 2023 Book of the Year Award from Chicago Writers Association If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman's long-ago fiancĂ©, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. In these pages there are fatal accidents and miraculous births; a grief pilgrimage that takes Christman to jungles, volcanoes, and caves in Central America; and meditations on everything from sexual trauma and the more benign accidents of childhood to gun violence, indoor cycling, unlikely romance, and even a ghost or two. Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction focuses an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Christman's first fifty years and sends out a message of love, power, and hope.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781496233226
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Part 1
  9. The Sloth
  10. Going Back to Plum Island
  11. The Surprise Baby
  12. The River Cave
  13. Bird Girls
  14. Life’s Not a Paragraph
  15. Part 2
  16. Family Portrait
  17. The Eleven-Minute Crib Nap
  18. The Googly Eye
  19. A Stone Pear
  20. Leading the Children Out of Town
  21. Slaughterhouse Island
  22. Part 3
  23. The Avocado
  24. The Baby and the Alligator
  25. Aiskhyne
  26. The Lucky Ones
  27. Naked Underneath Our Clothes
  28. Spinning
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Source Acknowledgments
  31. About Jill Christman
  32. Series List