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Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature | Joelle Renstrom

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Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Memoir. CLOSING THE BOOK: TRAVELS IN LIFE, LOSS, AND LITERATURE explores the intersection of literature and life in personal essays about traveling, teaching, reading, writing, living, and dying. Each essay's narrative arc is formed and informed by the act of reading literature that makes a reader feel like the book she's reading was somehow written specifically for her to read in that exact moment. Renstrom relies on science fiction as a catalyst for grief, as well as a means of pushing past grim realities to begin envisioning life reconstructed and to embrace the idea that "there's nothing wrong with rebuilding forever."

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Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature | Joelle Renstrom

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I picked this— another prof I know where I work— for #ReadHarder #micropress and #bookaboutbooks. I liked some chapters more than others but overall this is a really beautiful book. The author processes her beloved father‘s untimely death through the lens of literature- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Camus, Arthur Clarke, and (my favorite chapter) Raymond Chandler. It might inspire me to go read some science fiction.. not my usual genre!

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Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature | Joelle Renstrom

“Wordlessly and without being asked, a city can give me all I need in a moment or a day—it can look into my eyes and measure my footfalls and know why I‘ve come. And I figure that in these places, I‘m more likely than anywhere else to cross paths with myself.” 📷 from a rainy day this week.

alisahar P.S. this is a really beautiful book that fits the #micropress and #bookaboutbooks categories for #ReadHarder 7y

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