TY  - BOOK
AU  - Julavits,Heidi
TI  - Directions to myself: a memoir of four years
SN  - 9780451498519
AV  - PS3560.U522 
U1  - 813/.54B 23/eng/20221014
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Hogarth
KW  - Julavits, Heidi
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - DLC
KW  - Mothers
KW  - United States
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship in Letters
KW  - Class of Spring 2024
N2  - "One day Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and realizes he is at the threshold of what she calls "the end times of childhood." When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming, and who am I as a mother? What comes next, Heidi realizes, suddenly starts to feel like uncharted waters. As her son continues to grow up, rape allegations rock the university campus where she teaches. She begins to wonder how she can prepare her son for the world he's about to enter. And what must she learn about herself? Returning to her own childhood in Maine, where she often navigated the coastline, Julavits takes us on an intellectual journey of the self, intertwined with a wide-ranging investigation of what it means to raise a son in our fraught cultural times. Examining the messy minutiae of family life alongside the knottier philosophical questions of culture, politics and gender, Julavits comes to realize that the directions forward must always come from deep within ourselves. Intimiate, rigorous, and refreshingly unsentimental, Directions to Myself is a brilliant examination of what makes life rich and mysterious by a writer whose work has been called "fascinating" (Washington Post), "scathingly funny" (Los Angeles Times), and "exquisite" (New York Times)"--
ER  -