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    Book of Days: Personal Essays
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    Book of Days: Personal Essays

    By Emily Fox Gordon and Phillip Lopate

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    The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . .
     
    Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon’s disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves—reflecting and revealing, like mirrors in a maze, the seemingly endless ways a woman can lose herself in the modern world. With piercing humor and merciless precision, Gordon zigzags her way through “the unevolved paradise” of academia, with its dying breeds of bohemians, adulterers, and flirts, then stumbles through the perils and pleasures of psychotherapy, hoping to find a narrative for her life. Along the way, she encounters textbook feminists, partying philosophers, perfectionist moms, and an unlikely kinship with Kafka—in a brilliant collection of essays that challenge our sacred institutions, defy our expectations, and define our lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 17, 2010
    ISBN9780679604013
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      Sharp memoir by the author of It Will Come to Me. My favorite chapter so far is "Faculty Wife," the way Gordon pulls away the illusions of a respectable life and shows you the truth is brilliant.