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Description of  How Other People Make Love (Made in Michigan Writer Series)

081434836X epub 081434836X epub In How Other People Make Love, Thisbe Nissen chronicles the lives and choices of people questioning the heteronormative institution of marriage. Not best-served by established conventions and conventional mores, these peopleyoung, old, gay, straight, midwestern, coastalare finding their own paths in learning who they are and how they want to love and be loved, even when those paths must be blazed through the unknown. Concerning husbands and wives, lovers and leavers, Nissen's stories explore our search for connection and all the ways we undercut it, unwittingly and intentionally, when we do find it. How do we hold ourselves togetherto function, work, and survivewhile endlessly yearning to be undone, unraveled, and laid bare, however untenable and excruciating? Read more