Kephart’s work is a masterclass in memoir.” - Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life “A profound meditation on how our most cherished-and most complicated-relationships shape who we are. We are here.” - Jacinda Barrett, actress and writer Are you there?’ In each line of prose she poses the question to us and we answer, yes, we are. Her stories are bare, stripped down, whittled to their very essence, like one of her husband’s dark, pragmatic vessels.
“She believes in acute, clear-eyed attention to the small moments. This moving work will linger with readers long after the final page.” - Diana Abu-Jaber, author of The Language of Baklava
This story of marriage, daughterhood, and motherhood, is also the story of an artist-how a woman becomes a writer and how she enters into conversation with the world. Beth Kephart is a jeweler: her words glisten, the emotions shine. “Rare and brave and beautifully written, Wife | Daughter | Self is a memoir to savor. This memoir is so revelatory, so affecting, that long after you turn the last page, you won’t stop thinking about it.” - Judy Kurtz Goldman, author of Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap Questions that turn everything back to her readers so that we can learn how to inhabit our own roles. She’s really just asking bone-deep, tough questions. Other times she’s out there-bold, making noise, ‘piercing the truth.’ But she never settles for the easy answer. Sometimes we encounter Beth Kephart’s ‘tip-toe self,’ artfully and gracefully telling her story. It’s a big, complicated portrait of a woman inhabiting the major roles of her life. “ Wife | Daughter | Self is a riveting, atmospheric dream of a book.
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