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Borderlines
What would you do if your best friend was also your worst enemy? When Caroline Kraus leaves behind her sheltered, upper-middle-class home in St. Louis for San Francisco following the death of her mother, she is searching for clarity and a fresh perspective to help her escape her mother’s ghost. Instead, in a dreamlike city of beatnik bookstores and coffeehouses, she meets Jane. Bewitching and free-spirited, Jane offers Caroline the warmth, intuitive understanding, and female companionship she craves, and soon the two women are inseparable. But gradually, Caroline discovers that behind the intensity that makes the friendship so intoxicating lies a dangerous, symbiotic stranglehold. As their...
Along the Borderlines
"In this poignant exploration of friendship, love and independence, Caroline Kraus revisits a transformative period during her early twenties. Alternating between St. Louis and San Francisco, past and present, we meet Caroline at the precipice of adulthood, struggling to overcome the loss of her mother to cancer. As a consuming new friendship takes hold of her heart, Kraus navigates her first job, a house full of roommates, and her own rapid unraveling. Told with wry humor and insight, the author's journey offers a portal into universal territories of heart and mind, across the fissures and fault lines of attachment, grief and self-discovery."--
Moving Pictures
In this layered excavation, Caroline Kraus pieces together and illuminates pivotal experiences that converged dramatically in her early twenties. Alternating between St. Louis and San Francisco, past and present, we meet Caroline at the precipice of adulthood, soon after the loss of her mother to cancer. As a consuming friendship takes hold of her heart, she navigates a new city and job, a house full of roommates, and, with the help of a wise ally, she begins to make sense of why her life is unraveling. Looking back with the wisdom of time, Kraus' journey offers a portal into universal territories of heart and mind, along the fissures and fault lines of attachment, grief and self-discovery.
Along the Borderlines: A Memoir
In this poignant exploration of friendship, love and independence, Caroline Kraus revisits a transformative period during her early twenties. Alternating between St. Louis and San Francisco, past and present, we meet Caroline at the precipice of adulthood, struggling to overcome the loss of her mother to cancer. As a consuming new friendship takes hold of her heart, Kraus navigates her first job, a house full of roommates, and her own rapid unraveling. Told with wry humor and insight, the author's journey offers a portal into universal territories of heart and mind, across the fissures and fault lines of attachment, grief and self-discovery.
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The Novel Cure
Whether you have a stubbed toe or a stubborn case of the blues, within these pages you’ll find a cure in the form of a novel – or a combination of novels – to help ease your pain. You’ll also find advice on how to tackle common reading ailments – such as what to do when you feel overwhelmed by the number of books in the world, or if you have a tendency to give up halfway through. When read at the right moment in your life, a novel can – quite literally – change it, and The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. Written with authority, passion and wit, here is a fresh approach to finding new books to read, and an enchanting way to revisit the books on your shelves.
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NB by J.C.
The NB column in the Times Literary Supplement, signed at the foot by J.C., occupied the back page of the paper for thirteen years. For a decade before that, it was in the middle pages. That's roughly 60,000 words a year for twenty-three years. The purpose of the initials was not to disguise the author, but to offer complete freedom to the persona. J.C. was irreverent and whimsical. The column punctured pomposity, hypocrisy and cant in the literary world – as one correspondent put it: 'skewering contemporary absurdities, whether those resulting from identity politics or from academic jargon'. Readers came to expect reports from the Basement Labyrinth, where all executive decisions are made...
