Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief by Jessica Hendry Nelson

Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief by Jessica Hendry Nelson

A fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson's father dies from an accident caused by complications from alcoholism, she knows immediately she has inherited his love - that it left his body, traveled through the air, and entered her own. And so, she needs a place to put it.

Jessica Hendry Nelson’s Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief is a memoir of 'contradictory truths'—where a father is dead and alive all at once, where the past is as present as the word now in a world 'so full of love and longing and wonder and grief and fear' It is an elegy. It is a love song. It is a cry to women to renew their bonds with one another. It is a sister’s lament, and it is a dirge for a marriage gone under. It is also a book-length braided meditation on the act of creation itself—from the creation of life to the creation of story." - Brian Turner author of My Life as a Foreign Country

JESSICA HENDRY NELSON is the author of the memoir If Only You People Could Follow Directions as well as Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology with coauthor Sean Prentiss. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Tin House, the Threeepenny Review, North American Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. She teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MFA Program at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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ISBN 13	9780820365473
ISBN 10	0820365475
Title	Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief
Author	Jessica Hendry Nelson
Series	The Sue William Silverman Prize For Creative Nonfiction
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2023-09-01
Number of pages	277
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