Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage - an exploration of motherhood, art and new love.

In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most intimate relationships of her life - her consuming love for her young daughter, and a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope - and examines what it means for a woman to be many things at once: a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover.

REVIEWS

"Beautifully interwoven and unputdownable... squishing layer upon layer of resonant truths into meticulously crafted paragraphs." ― Red

"[Splinters'] pages are lit by flinty humour and grownup joy as thought and feeling are joined in prose that's intimate and exacting... never less than gripping... A mother-daughter love story that reads like a classic ."― Observer

"An utterly absorbing account of motherhood, love and loss, in jaw-dropping sentences. Jamison transforms familiar subjects into something elemental and unique, and is one of the finest non-fiction storytellers at work in the world today." - Sinead Gleeson

PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher: Granta
ISBN: 978-1783788910
Pages: 272