The Resource Happiness : the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir, Heather Harpham
Happiness : the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir, Heather Harpham
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The item Happiness : the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir, Heather Harpham represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Neenah Public Library.
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- Summary
- Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant, Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie's arrival, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her, "Get dressed, your baby is in trouble." This is not how Heather had imagined new motherhood, alone, heartsick, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled "like sliced apples and salted pretzels" but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie's condition grows dire; together Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood. The grace and humor that ripple through Harpham's writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written, Happiness radiates in many directions, new, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful, inscrutable world; deep, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Ultimately it's a story about love and happiness, in their many crooked configurations
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250131560
- Label
- Happiness : the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir
- Title
- Happiness
- Title remainder
- the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Heather Harpham
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant, Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie's arrival, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her, "Get dressed, your baby is in trouble." This is not how Heather had imagined new motherhood, alone, heartsick, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled "like sliced apples and salted pretzels" but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie's condition grows dire; together Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood. The grace and humor that ripple through Harpham's writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written, Happiness radiates in many directions, new, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful, inscrutable world; deep, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Ultimately it's a story about love and happiness, in their many crooked configurations
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Harpham, Heather Elise
- Dewey number
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- 618.3/6130092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RJ255
- LC item number
- .H36 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Harpham, Heather Elise
- Newborn infants
- Blood diseases in pregnancy
- Blood
- Parent and child
- Label
- Happiness : the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir, Heather Harpham
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn969438753
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250131560
- Lccn
- 2016040488
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)969438753
- a1170617
- Label
- Happiness : the crooked little road to semi-ever after : a memoir, Heather Harpham
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn969438753
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250131560
- Lccn
- 2016040488
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)969438753
- a1170617
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