CLAIRE DEDERER is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which has been translated into twelve languages, and which Elizabeth Gilbert called "the book we all need." A book critic, essayist, and reporter, Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and has also written for The Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, The Nation, and New York magazine, among other publications. She lives on an island near Seattle with her family.
Praise for Love and Trouble
"Love and Trouble is the most surprising and subversive memoir I've
read in years. Come for what you think is a standard mid-life
crisis story. Stay for the luminous, gritty map of Seattle in the
eighties and nineties; the perfectly recalled angst of adolescence;
the dark midnights of men and whiskey; the intelligent meditations
on women, their vulnerability and sexuality. Put the book down with
gratitude for the Claire Dederer's unshrinking honesty and mastery
of her material."
--Stephanie Danler "In equal parts hilarious and haunting, Love and
Trouble captures the ways in which our past selves are never really
past. In loose, edgy, confident prose, Claire Dederer peels back
layer after layer of herself as an erotic creature, and in so doing
has crafted a book that grabs the reader in an utterly visceral
way. This is an exciting, daring memoir."
--Dani Shapiro
"Love and Trouble is a welcome deep dive into Claire Dederer's girl
self and grown self, and the way the two have overlapped and pulled
apart over time. This knowing and original memoir abounds with
intelligence, wit, earned nostalgia, and an impressive degree of
understanding about no less than being female and becoming a
person."
--Meg Wolitzer "Love and Trouble is unlike any memoir I've ever
read: formally inventive and wise, have-to-put-the-book-down funny
yet somehow tinged with grief. And the sentences! They simply sing.
I've never thought so deeply, or in so many different modes, about
my own sexuality, femininity, and motherhood. Though I don't mean
to suggest that this is a book just for women--I kept reading
passages aloud to my husband, as a way of asking him to understand
something essential about me, and about himself, and about marriage
in general. I began reading Love and Trouble thinking Dederer was
writing about herself; halfway through I decided she was writing
about me. By the time I finished I realized she'd written to me,
and to my daughters--to all of us."
--Jamie Quatro "When I got my hands on Claire Dederer's new book, I
instantly turned off my phone, cancelled all my appointments,
curled up in bed, and read all day in grateful -- and thoughtful --
abandon. As always, I was delighted with what I found in her
writing. Dederer is not only a brilliant author, but an honest and
brave one, who is not afraid to deep-dive into her own history and
her own heart in order to examine what it really means to be a
woman right now. Love and Trouble is a book caused me to think
differently about marriage, about intimacy, about middle-age, and
especially about what it means to have once been a sexually
adventurous teenage girl. I saw myself all over these pages, and a
think a lot of other readers will, as well."
--Elizabeth Gilbert "Claire Dederer, in a ferociously honest new
memoir, "Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning," walks this
minefield. Most shocking of all, she does it with bracing
humor...This is an unflinching exploration... She is a delightfully
mordant companion. You could ask for no better guide to the center
of yourself."
--Seattle Times
What emerges, in the course of this vivid, hilarious, daring
self-portrait of a book, is a person who has achieved clarity about
her own contradictions, or at least has figured out how to use
those contradictions as an excuse to bring lively writing into the
world. Told from changing points of view, the memoir is practically
a master class in narrative technique... The world is troubling,
yes, but this narrator's intelligence, her curiosity about the
ambivalence that defines interiority, and the unique light cast by
her experiences growing up in Seattle the 1970s and '80s yield
insight and laughs on every page."
--The Stranger
"Dederer is unstintingly honest and unafraid as she excavates her
motivations and res-ervations, her fantasies, and the implications
of the choices she has made--and those she has yet to make.
Insightful, provocative, and fearlessly frank, Dederer seduces
readers with her warmth, wit, and wisdom."
--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Edgy, frank, and outright
hilarious...This candid memoir will resonate with women (and quite
possibly men) of all ages, but particularly those in midlife.
Dederer brings a startling intimacy and immediacy to her version of
growing up female in America."
--Publishers Weekly "Her elegantly structured, expansive, and
unapologetic account captures the sense of one woman's self about
as honestly as it is possible to do on a page... Dederer's memoir
speaks eloquently to questions all women have."
--Library Journal (starred review)
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