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'Shows the ways in which we are all, always, having to reimagine
the story of our lives' Refinery29 'Really smart and exceptionally
good' Curtis Sittenfeld 'A moving investigation of love, loss and
parenthood' Esquire 'Mind-blowing . . . brilliant and fearless'
Elif Batuman The perfect song. The biggest dream. The love of her
life. It's the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has
arrived in New York City's East Village in the hopes of recording
her first album. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she's
just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she
falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on
the rise. Their time together is stormy and short-lived - but will
reverberate for the rest of Laura's life. Fifteen years later,
Laura's teenage daughter is asking questions about her father,
questions Laura does not want to answer. Laura has built a stable
life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she
envisioned all those years ago, and she's taken pains to close the
door on what was and what might have been. When her best friend -
now a famous musician - comes to town, opportunity knocks for Laura
for a second time. Has growing older changed who she is and what
she most wants? After all the sacrifices and compromises she's made
along the way, how much is she still that girl from Ohio, with big
talent and big dreams? Funny, wise and tender-hearted, Perfect
Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships,
and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed.
'Shows the ways in which we are all, always, having to reimagine
the story of our lives' Refinery29 'Really smart and exceptionally
good' Curtis Sittenfeld 'A moving investigation of love, loss and
parenthood' Esquire 'Mind-blowing . . . brilliant and fearless'
Elif Batuman The perfect song. The biggest dream. The love of her
life. It's the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has
arrived in New York City's East Village in the hopes of recording
her first album. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she's
just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she
falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on
the rise. Their time together is stormy and short-lived - but will
reverberate for the rest of Laura's life. Fifteen years later,
Laura's teenage daughter is asking questions about her father,
questions Laura does not want to answer. Laura has built a stable
life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she
envisioned all those years ago, and she's taken pains to close the
door on what was and what might have been. When her best friend -
now a famous musician - comes to town, opportunity knocks for Laura
for a second time. Has growing older changed who she is and what
she most wants? After all the sacrifices and compromises she's made
along the way, how much is she still that girl from Ohio, with big
talent and big dreams? Funny, wise and tender-hearted, Perfect
Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships,
and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed.
Bev and Amy are best friends but, at thirty, they have reached a
crossroads. Bev is stuck in circumstances that would barely have
passed muster in her twenties: temping, living in a shared house,
drowning in debt. Amy is a fiercely charismatic media darling still
riding the tailwinds of early success, but reality is catching up
with her. And now Bev is unexpectedly pregnant. As the two friends
are dragged into genuine adulthood, they are forced to contemplate
the possibility that growing up might mean growing apart.
Explores the burgeoning menstrual advocacy movement and analyzes
how law should evolve to take menstruation into account.
Approximately half the population menstruates for a large portion
of their lives, but the law is mostly silent about the topic. Until
recently, most people would have said that periods are private
matters not to be discussed in public. But the last few years have
seen a new willingness among advocates and allies of all ages to
speak openly about periods. Slowly around the globe, people are
recognizing the basic fundamental human right to address
menstruation in a safe and affordable way, free of stigma, shame,
or barriers to access. Menstruation Matters explores the role of
law in this movement. It asks what the law currently says about
menstruation (spoiler alert: not much) and provides a roadmap for
legal reform that can move society closer to a world where no one
is held back or disadvantaged by menstruation. Bridget J. Crawford
and Emily Gold Waldman examine these issues in a wide range of
contexts, from schools to workplaces to prisons to tax policies and
more. Ultimately, they seek to transform both law and society so
that menstruation is no longer an obstacle to full participation in
all aspects of public and private life.
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Friendship (Paperback)
Emily Gould
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R521
R435
Discovery Miles 4 350
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Essays by former editor of Gawker.com--and the new female voice of
her generation. In "And the Heart Says Whatever, " Emily Gould
tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the
first decade of the twenty-first century, alongside bartenders,
bounty hunters, bloggers, bohemians, socialites, and bankers. These
are essays about failing at pet parenthood, suspending lust during
the long moment in which a dude selects the perfect soundtrack from
his iTunes library, and leaving one life behind to begin a new one
(but still taking the G train back to visit the old one sometimes).
For everyone who has ever had a job she wishes she didn't, felt
inchoate ambition sour into resentment, ended a relationship,
regretted a decision, or told a secret to exactly the wrong person,
these stories will be achingly familiar. At once a road map of what
not to do and a document of what's possible, this book heralds the
arrival of a writer who decodes the new challenges of our
post-private lives, and the age-old intricacies of the human heart.
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