This Divorce Memoir Is Told from the Perspective of a Clam - Electric Literature

Hilarious Yet Poignant Memoir Navigates Self-Discovery After Late-in-Life Divorce

Virginia DeLuca is a dedicated psychotherapist and writer whose memoir, If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets, is cathartic and replete with dark humor. The tagline is “Sometimes, we know the least about those we love the most.” Anyone who has gone through a traumatic divorce or relationship break-up... The post Hilarious Yet Poignant Memoir Navigates Self-Discovery After Late-in-Life Divorce first appeared on BookTrib..

This Divorce Memoir Is Told from the Perspective of a Clam - Electric Literature

Anelise Chen’s hybrid memoir starts with an ingenious typo: Clam down, Chen’s mother texts her as she copes with her divorce, and poof!, the protagonist becomes a clam, determined to learn everything about her species and kin.Though its namesake is a sedentary bottom feeder, Clam Down transports us from a heartsick Friendsgiving in Paris to an ambivalent research trip along the Camino del Santiago to a hopeful artist’s residency in Arizona; acro…