Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait
about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt
in wonderful and surprising ways
"Thrilling." --The New York Times Book Review
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing
up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after
stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected
admission--I'm not happy--changes everything. Suddenly she finds
herself separated and in couples therapy, living in an apartment in the
city with an old friend and his kid. It's understood that the apartment
and bonus family are temporary, but the situation brings unexpected
comfort and much-needed healing for wounds even older than her marriage.
Crafting the story as the very events chronicled are unfolding, Crane
writes from a place of guarded possibility, capturing through vignettes
and collected moments a semblance of the real-time practice of healing.
At turns funny and dark, with moments of poignancy, This Story Will
Change is an unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in
transformation, a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves
about ourselves are bound to change.
