Binding: Paperback
Description: Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK) From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity and how it saved her life. In this brilliant fierce and funny memoir of transformation Jami Attenberg described as a master of modern fiction (Entertainment Weekly) and the poet laureate of difficult families (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life and voice she could claim for herself. What does it take to devote oneself to art? What does it mean to own one's ideas? What does the world look like for a woman moving solo through it? As the daughter of a traveling salesman in the Midwest Attenberg was drawn to a life on the road. Frustrated by quotidian jobs and hungry for inspiration and fresh experiences her wanderlust led her across the country and eventually on travels around the globe. Through it all she grapples with questions of mortality otherworldliness and what we leave behind. It is during these adventures that she begins to reflect on the experiences of her youth the trauma the challenges the risks she has taken. Driving across America on self - funded book tours sometimes crashing on couches when she was broke she keeps writing: in researching articles for magazines jotting down ideas for novels and refining her craft she grows as an artist and increasingly learns to trust her gut and ultimately herself. Exploring themes of friendship independence class and drive I Came All This Way to Meet You is an inspiring story of finding one's way home emotionally artistically and physically and an examination of art and individuality that will resonate with anyone determined to listen to their own creative calling.
Title: I Came All This Way To Meet You Writing Myself Home
Author(s): Attenberg Jami
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063039803
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/3/2023