I Never Expected This Good Life: Poems and Stories (Paperback or Softback). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.I Never Expected This Good Life: Poems and Stories (Paperback or Softback)

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. An enduring aspect of this story is the author's intimacy with the biology of kinship. She establishes the metaphorical heart at the center of a complex ecosystem—in which love is water, light, and oxygen—by weaving together the body and spirit so viscerally and so well that at times it will leave you wanting to forget where you end and someone else begins. Jennifer Futernick is most at home, and at her most eloquent, in noting the myriad ways that the heart extends its influence into every touch, look, thought, reply, every thing that matters.

"In this brave and unusual memoir, the author's spirit vibrates through these refreshing and open pages. She does not shy away from the joy and pain of ordinary life, but reveals in surprising, delicate detail the connections that make up 'the good life.'"—Kate Abbe

Jennifer Futernick holds a B.A. in Humanities from the University of California at Berkeley and an MLS from San Jose State. She was a research librarian at McKinsey & Company for over twenty years. She is currently a poet and freelance editor, and lives with her husband in San Francisco.