The Crane Wife
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'Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous' Roxane Gay
'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee
Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Crane Wife as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It was just an interesting collection of essays, some of them autobiographical.
The first piece, where she breezes through individual years of her life, was hilarious and fascinating. I also really liked her in-depth examination of The X-Files. Well written, comical, and often extremely insightful all around.
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