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Hard to Love : Essays and Confessions

by Briallen Hopper
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Celebrating unconventional forms of love and relationships.

Hard to Love by Briallen Hopper would be a good read for anyone who feels like their relationships outside of romantic partnerships often go unrecognized. Hopper's essays are personal and relatable, drawing from pop culture and literature to remind us of all the different kinds of love and support that exist in our lives. Her writing is thoughtful and nuanced, exploring the challenges and joys of all kinds of relationships. Readers will come away from this book feeling seen and affirmed in their own experiences of non-romantic love.

  • Washington State Book Award Nominee for Creative Nonfiction (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Hard to Love : Essays and Confessions

by Briallen Hopper
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ISBN: 9781632868800
Author: Briallen Hopper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Date of Publication: 2019-05-09
Format: Hardback
Goodreads rating: 3.82
(rated by 487 readers)

Description

A sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples, from a laser-precise new voice. Sometimes it seems like there are two American creeds, self-reliance and marriage, and neither of them is mine. I experience myself as someone formed and sustained by others' love and patience, by student loans and stipends, by the kindness of strangers. Briallen Hopper's Hard to Love honors the categories of loves and relationships beyond marriage, the ones that are often treated as invisible or seen as secondary--friendships, kinship with adult siblings, care teams that form in times of illness, or various alternative family formations. She also values difficult and amorphous loves like loving a challenging job or inanimate objects that can't love you back. She draws from personal experience, sharing stories about her loving but combative family, the fiercely independent Emerson scholar who pushed her away, and the friends who have become her invented or found family; pop culture touchstones like the Women's March, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, and the timeless series Cheers; and the work of writers like Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks, Flannery O'Connor, and Herman Melville (Moby-Dick like you've never seen it!). Hard to Love pays homage and attention to unlikely friends and lovers both real and fictional. It is a series of love letters to the meaningful, if underappreciated, forms of intimacy and community that are tricky, tangled, and tough, but ultimately sustaining.


Author: Briallen Hopper
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 336
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Date: 09 May 2019
 

Celebrating unconventional forms of love and relationships.

Hard to Love by Briallen Hopper would be a good read for anyone who feels like their relationships outside of romantic partnerships often go unrecognized. Hopper's essays are personal and relatable, drawing from pop culture and literature to remind us of all the different kinds of love and support that exist in our lives. Her writing is thoughtful and nuanced, exploring the challenges and joys of all kinds of relationships. Readers will come away from this book feeling seen and affirmed in their own experiences of non-romantic love.

  • Washington State Book Award Nominee for Creative Nonfiction (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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