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Like love / Michele Morano.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: MachetePublisher: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 237 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780814255988
  • 0814255981
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
The law of definite proportions -- Breaking and entering -- Crushed -- About Wayne -- Ars romantica (or a dozen ways of looking at love) -- Boy crazy -- Like love -- Evenings at the Collegeview Diner -- How to tell a true love story -- Restless -- All the power this charm doth owe -- Backstitch -- My sky, my life -- The married kiss.
Summary: "A personal essay collection about unconsummated romance in all its forms. The author discusses unconsummated romance and her relationships with partners, parents, strangers, and friends"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 814.6 M829 Available 33111010433692
Total holds: 0

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Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Crushes. Infatuations. Attractions. Unexpected, inexplicable allure. Entanglements steeped in taboo and disruption. In Like Love , nothing is off limits.



In these remarkable essays, Michele Morano explores the pleasures, possibilities, strangeness, and lessons of unconsummated romance. With insight and imagination, Like Love interweaves poignant, humorous episodes from adulthood with the backstory of a young family's turbulent breakup. When Morano was an adolescent in blue-collar Poughkeepsie, New York, her mother left her father for a woman in an era when LGBTQ parents were widely viewed as "unfit." Through the turmoil, adolescent Morano paid attention, tucking away the stories that were shaping her and guiding her understanding of love.



Turning romantic clichés inside out and challenging us to rethink our notions about what it means to love, Like Love tells hard and necessary truths about the importance of desire in growing, traveling, mourning, parenting, and figuring out who you are in the world. With precision and depth, Morano explores what it means to find ourselves in relationships that are not quite--but almost--like love.

The law of definite proportions -- Breaking and entering -- Crushed -- About Wayne -- Ars romantica (or a dozen ways of looking at love) -- Boy crazy -- Like love -- Evenings at the Collegeview Diner -- How to tell a true love story -- Restless -- All the power this charm doth owe -- Backstitch -- My sky, my life -- The married kiss.

"A personal essay collection about unconsummated romance in all its forms. The author discusses unconsummated romance and her relationships with partners, parents, strangers, and friends"-- Provided by publisher.

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