This Really Isn't About You - Hardcover

Edelstein, Jean Hannah

 
9781509863785: This Really Isn't About You
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1509863788 ISBN 13: 9781509863785
Verlag: Picador, 2018

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'A magnificent, beautifully written memoir. Unsentimental but heartbreaking, the voice – true and clear. Brilliant.' Nina Stibbe

In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer.
Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died.
Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too.

When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big questions in life: How do we cope with grief? How does living change when we realize we're not invincible? Does knowing our likely fate make it harder or easier to face the future? How do you motivate yourself to go on your OkCupid date when you’re struggling with your own mortality?

Written in her inimitable, wry and insightful voice, Jean Hannah Edelstein's memoir is by turns heart-breaking, hopeful and yet also disarmingly funny. This Really Isn't About You is a book about finding your way in life. Which is to say, it’s a book about discovering you are not really in control of that at all.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean Hannah Edelstein is a writer who lives in Brooklyn. She writes regularly for outlets including The Guardian and The Pool, and a weekly TinyLetter, which Vogue said ‘pops up in your inbox like lucid dreaming.’ She also writes all of the marketing emails for Spotify, so you've probably deleted her work. This Really Isn’t About You is her second book.

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‘A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir. Unsentimental but heartbreaking, the voice – true and clear. Brilliant.’ Nina Stibbe
‘Deft, witty and profound, this is a true story about how to let go, and when to hold on. Jean Hannah Edelstein’s writing glows with a peerless clarity that had me turning the pages all night. A stunning book.’ Jessie Burton
‘Jean Hannah Edelstein is an exceptional writer, simultaneously wry and heartbreaking. She has this incredible ability to extrapolate moments of grace and sadness from the everyday, and this memoir is no exception.’ Nikesh Shukla
‘[This] debut book does everything I love about memoir: it hits you with the truth, it reads as enthrallingly as fiction can, and it leaves you changed.’ ELLE
‘Jean Hannah Edelstein is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation . . . This is a magnificent book, about families, mortality, love and the hard, necessary work of becoming an adult.’ Olivia Laing

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509863788
ISBN 13 
9781509863785
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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