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A fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson’s father dies from an accident caused by complications from alcoholism, she knows immediately she has inherited his love - that it left his body, traveled through the air, and entered her own. And so, she needs a place to put it.

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Jessica Hendry Nelson’s Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief is a memoir of 'contradictory truths'—where a father is dead and alive all at once, where the past is as present as the word now in a world 'so full of love and longing and wonder and grief and fear.' It is an elegy. It is a love song. It is a cry to women to renew their bonds with one another. It is a sister’s lament, and it is a dirge for a marriage gone under. It is also a book-length braided meditation on the act of creation itself—from the creation of life to the creation of story." - Brian Turner author of My Life as a Foreign Country

Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief A Memoir

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    A Paperback by Jessica Hendry Nelson, Brian Turner

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Georgia Press
      Publication Date: 9/1/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780820365473, 978-0820365473
      ISBN10: 0820365475

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      Book Synopsis
      A fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson’s father dies from an accident caused by complications from alcoholism, she knows immediately she has inherited his love - that it left his body, traveled through the air, and entered her own. And so, she needs a place to put it.

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      Jessica Hendry Nelson’s Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief is a memoir of 'contradictory truths'—where a father is dead and alive all at once, where the past is as present as the word now in a world 'so full of love and longing and wonder and grief and fear.' It is an elegy. It is a love song. It is a cry to women to renew their bonds with one another. It is a sister’s lament, and it is a dirge for a marriage gone under. It is also a book-length braided meditation on the act of creation itself—from the creation of life to the creation of story." - Brian Turner author of My Life as a Foreign Country

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