Jenessa Abrams

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[Jenessa Abrams @JenessaAbrams]

For @LAReviewofBooks I wrote about Sarah Manguso’s “Liars”, Alice Munro’s silence, and what happens when women turn into wives.

All gratitude to @ellie_eberlee for helping me wrestle this into existence.

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"She uses language to reconstruct thought, astonishing complexity of her son’s mind—all the while knowing that it will be merely that: a reconstruction," writes @JenessaAbrams in her review of Yiyun Li’s "Things in Nature Merely Grow." https://t.co/PRbAbeyfap

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“There is no redemption arc in ‘Things in Nature Merely Grow,’ no hero’s journey, no arrival at a deeper meaning of life after the compounding tragedies of Vincent and James’s suicides.” @JenessaAbrams reviews Yiyun Li’s "Things in Nature Merely Grow." https://t.co/PRbAbeyfap

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First up, we're revisiting @JenessaAbrams’s review of Miranda July’s "All Fours": "Two identities. A person or a wife. An artist or a mother. A sexual object or an invisible body." https://t.co/RCTOdaUJ8w

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"Her son's presence doesn't heal her. It can't." @JenessaAbrams reviews Shayne Terry's novel on motherhood and postpartum care, "Leave: A Postpartum Account." https://t.co/yzJwUuvLd1

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I finished writing this for @LAReviewofBooks on the eve of my child’s first birthday. Marking the end of my first postpartum year with Shayne Terry’s Leave, a book about pain, intergenerational trauma, & motherhood. Thanks forever to @ellie_eberlee
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"This isn't the child's story: it is the mother's." @JenessaAbrams considers motherhood and postpartum healthcare in in review of Shayne Terry's "Leave: A Postpartum Account." https://t.co/yzJwUuvLd1

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This means a stupid lot to me during my first year of motherhood. Thank you so much for reading. Writing this piece helped save me. @LAReviewofBooks
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Before 2024 ends, we want to give your favorites back to you. Your LARB Wrapped is here, with our top 10 most-read pieces of the year. https://t.co/T8tYx0z6HD

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We're starting to close out 2024, and as we look ahead to 2025, we have at least one big assignment remaining: to meet a generous matching grant challenge made by an anonymous donor by December 31. Help us get there by donating today! https://t.co/G8KAIs4vuT

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Desire, strangers, jury duty—you'll find all of these in @jenessaabrams' electrifying #lettertoastranger from our anthology with @AlgonquinBooks.

This volume features essays by many of our era's most brilliant writers and makes a beautiful gift: https://t.co/0dDHnoROjY

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Amber Nicole Thurman was killed by Georgia's abortion ban. She died in a hospital, surrounded by medical providers who could have saved her life.

This is what abortion bans do.
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[Jenessa Abrams @JenessaAbrams]

Just burst into tears listening to the passion in Harris' voice speaking about the violence of abortion bans affecting the health and safety of pregnant people experiencing miscarriages in a US presidential debate

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

thank you, pasta,
for being pasta

[Jenessa Abrams @JenessaAbrams]

I was bouncing my baby when I saw the VP pick and shrieked with joy, then he shrieked with joy, and we both started giggling uncontrollably—me imagining the future this presidency could bring, him being blissfully unaware of the alternative which is what I want for all children

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"How do we stand on the edge of a cliff, watching the ground under strangers’ feet disintegrate while the dirt beneath us stays firm?" - @JenessaAbrams in...
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@jacobinoire Edna!!!!! I am so deeply happy for you. I'm beaming. Sending all my love to you and yours.

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NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow @JenessaAbrams reviewed Sarah Manguso’s "Liars" for @LAReviewofBooks: https://t.co/m7TqkcsHan

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“When a woman loves a man with the whole of her self, there is no self left for her. Nor—as we’ve been reminded—is there any left for her child.” @JenessaAbrams on Sarah Manguso's "Liars" in the wake of Andrea Skinner's essay on Alice Munro. https://t.co/JHUEmo1RE6

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@KFergusonWrites ♥️

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Sonya Massey should be alive today.