Marriage in Startled Air

A Memoir

AvPatricia Foster

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction

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In A Marriage in Startled Air, Patricia Foster shares the dramatic story of how the diagnosis of her husband’s rare cancer changed the dynamics of their marriage and opened the door to the hidden world of his childhood, revealing the seeds of trauma and childhood PTSD. In vivid, often poetic prose, Foster reflects on how the journey of recovery—and discovery—between two artists in a relatively happy marriage leads to difficult conversations about family, memory, identity, and aging. Within this unburdening, Patricia and David discover a new map of intimacy: Once the illusion of normalcy is broken, what emerges is something sweeter and deeper, as if the broken thing becomes, ironically, the healing thing.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-15
Mått:140 x 216 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:University of Georgia Press
ISBN:9780820377025

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PATRICIA FOSTER is the author of All the Lost Girls, Just beneath My Skin, Girl from Soldier Creek, and Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter. She has edited four anthologies and received a PEN Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Hall-Waters Award for Distinguished Southern Writing, a Clarence Cason Award, and a Truman Capote Award for fiction and nonfiction. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she was a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa for over twenty-five years, and has taught in France, Australia, Italy, and Spain. She currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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This beautifully told story of a marriage blends Foster’s signature introspective, lyrically descriptive style with the pacing of a mystery. For decades, Patricia and her husband, David, have built their lives around their art, but will a critical illness and what they uncover about David’s childhood affect their ability to create? In 'One Art,' Elizabeth Bishop writes 'the art of losing’s not too hard to master / though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.' In this powerful book, Foster does, indeed, write it!, and in so doing proves the power of art to heal.