The Crane Wife

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Over a million readers flocked to read CJ Hauser's essay "The Crane Wife" when it ran in the Paris Review last year, an extraordinary piece about the author's decision to go on a scientific expedition to study the whooping crane ten days after calling off her engagement, more than that, it's about the ways in which women shrink their desires, and accept the love they think they deserve. In her first book-length work of non-fiction, THE CRANE WIFE And Other Essays, CJ uses that now-beloved title essay as a thematic anchor around which to explore, through an excavation of both her own personal and larger familial hope chest of 'love stories, ' what it looks like when a person realizes the traditional narrative she thought was to be the story of her life turns out to be a story which must be rewritten.