Island author debuts memoir at EHBC
Published 10:30 am Tuesday, May 9, 2017
The latest memoir by Bainbridge-based author Claire Dederer (author of “Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses”) “Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning” will see its official launch at Eagle Harbor Book Company at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 9.
Fellow Bainbridge author Carol Cassella will be there for a conversation with Dederer at the launch party.
“Love and Trouble” is a ferocious, sexy, fun memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl the author was with the woman she has become. Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages 9 and 12, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and, simultaneously, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. This exuberant memoir shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of mysterious new hungers and herself as a teenager — when she recalls having last experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing.
From her hilarious chapter titles (“How to Have Sex with Your Husband of Seventeen Years”) to her subjects — the boyfriend she dumped at 14 the moment she learned how to give herself an orgasm, to the girls who ruled her elite private school (“when I left Oberlin I thought I had done with them forever, but it turned out … they also edited all the newspapers and magazines, and wrote all the books”), to raising a teenage daughter herself — Dederer writes with a blend of wry wit and raw honesty and exposes herself utterly, and in doing so captures something universal about the experience of being a woman, a daughter, a wife.
Dederer is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir “Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,” which has been translated into 12 languages, and which Elizabeth Gilbert called “the book we all need.” A book critic, essayist, and reporter, she is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and has also written for The Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, The Nation, and New York magazine, among others.
Seating will be limited and signing up early is encouraged. Visit the “events” sections at www.eagleharborbooks.com for more information.
