My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
[S.I.] : Tin House Books, 2020.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Gorgeous, symphonic, tender, and brilliant, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is a monumental achievement." ?Carmen Maria Machado While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson and a woman named Annemarie?letter that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language?but does not see Carson as history has portrayed her. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of Carson's life: She wades through the therapy transcripts; she stays at Carson's childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza; she relives Carson's days at her beloved Yaddo. As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and Carson, she sees the way Carson's story has become a way to articulate something about herself. The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories. In genre-defying vignettes, Jenn Shapland interweaves her own story with Carson McCullers's to create a vital new portrait of one of America's most beloved writers, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.
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