Description
“Beautiful, symphonic, comfortable, and good, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is a enormous success.” -Carmen Maria Machado
While operating as an intern within the records on the Harry Ransom Middle, Jenn Shapland encounters the affection letters of Carson and a lady named Annemarie―letters are which might be comfortable, intimate, and unabashed of their emotions. Shapland acknowledges herself within the letters’ language―however does now not see Carson as historical past has portrayed her.
And so, Shapland is pressured to adopt a restoration of the whole narrative and language of Carson’s existence: She wades in the course of the remedy transcripts; she remains at Carson’s adolescence house, the place she lounges in her bath and eats supply pizza; she relives Carson’s days at her cherished Yaddo. As Shapland reckons with the increasing and collapsing distance among her and Carson, she sees the best way Carson’s tale has turn into a solution to articulate one thing approximately herself. The consequences articulate one thing completely new now not simplest approximately this one exceptional, walleyed existence, however approximately the best way we inform queer love tales.
In style-defying vignettes, Jenn Shapland interweaves her personal tale with Carson McCullers’s to create a very important new portrait of one in every of The us’s such a lot cherished writers, and presentations us how the writers we like and the tales we inform approximately ourselves make us who we’re.
