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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays

The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays

Stielstra, Megan

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ISBN10: 0062429205
ISBN13: 9780062429209
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Stielstra is a masterful essayist. --Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger

From an important new writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, academia, the Internet, and justice.

In this poignant and inciting collection of literary essays, Megan Stielstra tells stories to ward off fears both personal and universal as she grapples toward a better way to live. In her titular piece The Wrong Way To Save Your Life, she answers the question of what has value in our lives--a question no longer rhetorical when the apartment above her family's goes up in flames. Here is My Heart sheds light on Megan's close relationship with her father, whose continued insistence on climbing mountains despite a series of heart attacks leads the author to dissect deer hearts in a poetic attempt to interrogate her own feelings about mortality.

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