SPLINTERS: Another Kind of Love Story, by Leslie JamisonWe live in a golden age of autobiographical women’s writing.
In its place has arisen a group of brilliant women, inclusive of trans women, with their own ideas for the form, among them Maggie Nelson, Eula Biss, Valeria Luiselli, Margo Jefferson, Alison Bechdel, Rachel Cusk, Carina Chocano — and Leslie Jamison.
Jamison, now 40, is the author of a new memoir called “Splinters.” It tells the story of her divorce and first years as a single mother.
“One piece of me said, It’s unbearable,” Jamison writes about being apart from her baby.
When I said, Please don’t speak to me like that, he leaned closer to say, I can speak to you however I [expletive] want.” In another drop-off scene he spits at her.
Persons:
Leslie Jamison, Roth, Styron, Maggie Nelson, Eula Biss, Valeria Luiselli, Margo Jefferson, Alison Bechdel, Rachel Cusk, Carina Chocano —, Jamison, Virginia Woolf, ” Jamison, ”, “
Organizations:
Ford