My Unsentimental Education (Paperback)

A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career-if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she's still bluecollar. Negotiating the world of dating, Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a woman ambivalent about her newfound status as ""liberated"". Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us "to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be," Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn't. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working-class girl ends up far from where she began.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series
Release date:	February 2018
Authors:	Debra Monroe
Series editors:	John Griswold
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-5375-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8203-5375-2
Barcode:	9780820353753

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