Bøker av Jami Attenberg

Follows "a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own"--

A Most Anticipated Title from: USA Today * The Guardian * Alma * Fodor's * AV Club * Vogue * KatieCouric.com * BookRiot * Lithub * BuzzFeedA New Yorker Best Book of 2022From 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.

Attenberg is a master at excavating the good, the bad and the ugly truths about families...her richly human characters populate a witty narrative studded with surprises.People Orchestrated with the precision of an opera on a revolving stage. NPR This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man. New York Times Book ReviewNAMED A BEST FALL BOOK BYTime * People * Entertainment Weekly * Salon * BBC * Buzzfeed *Refinery29 * Vogue * Vulture * Bustle * Cosmopolitan * New York Post * Nylon * Bust * Hello Giggles * USA Today * The Observer * PopSugar * Newsday * Woman's Day * St. Louis Dispatch * Inside Hook * She KnowsFrom critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer

A moving, hilarious, and deeply perceptive novel of universal themes: family, love and greed.