Year of Plenty - B. J. Hollars

Year of Plenty

A Family's Season of Grief

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2024
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-34744-4 (ISBN)
31,10 inkl. MwSt
In November 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching. “When will you be home?” Steve asked. “I have news.” 

So began the Hollars family’s year of plenty--a cancer diagnosis on top of the ongoing COVID pandemic, then feelings of falling short as parents, partners, and people. While Hollars traces his family’s daily devastations alongside his father-in-law’s decline, he recounts the small mercies along the way: birthdays, campfires, fishing trips, kayaking, and fireflies. As he, his wife, Meredith, and their three young children grapple with how best to say goodbye to the person they love, they are forced to reassess their own lives. How can we make the most of our time, they wonder, when time feels so short?

Written in vignettes and accompanied by photographs and family interviews, Year of Plenty provides a poignant and unflinching account of how death separates us not only from the people we love but from places and memories too. Hollars explores how death’s all-consuming weight has the potential to fracture--rather than strengthen--even those relationships we think we know the best. Ultimately, he cracks wide personal moments from his own life and allows the world to peer in.

B.J. Hollars is the author or editor of more than a dozen books. The founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, he is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

I. Before
November 4, 2020
November 24, 2020
December 17, 2020
December 24, 2020
December 25, 2020
December 25, 2020 (continued)
Interview #1: Winter 2022
January 27, 2021
February 13, 2021
Bear Country: January–February 2015
February 20, 2021
March 19–22, 2021
March 23, 2021
April 16, 2021
April 18, 2021
Punch Line: March 2014
May 1, 2021
May 18, 2021
Interview #2: Winter 2022
May 29, 2021
May 29, 2021 (continued)
Good Dog: March 2020
May 30, 2021
June 1, 2021
June 2, 2021
June 5, 2021
June 5, 2021 (continued)
June 5, 2021 (continued)
Interview #3: Winter 2022
June 7, 2021
June 8, 2021
II. During
June 12, 2021
Interview #4: Winter 2022
June 12, 2021 (continued)
Safely Ashore: June 2004
June 16, 2021
June 16, 2021 (continued)
June 17, 2021
June 17, 2021 (continued)
June 18, 2021
Interview #5: Winter 2022
June 18, 2021 (continued)
June 19, 2021
June 19, 2021 (continued)
June 19, 2021 (continued)
In the Adobe Hotel in Santa Fe: January 3, 2017
June 19, 2021 (continued)
June 20, 2021
Final Cancer Treatment Preceded by a Surprise: June 21, 2021
Steve Ball
June 23, 2021
Interview #6: Winter 2022
June 24, 2021
June 25, 2021
June 26, 2021
June 28, 2021
June 28, 2021 (continued)
Interview #7: Winter 2022
June 28, 2021 (continued)
June 28, 2021 (continued)
June 28, 2021 (continued)
Interview #8: Winter 2022
June 29, 2021
June 29, 2021 (continued)
June 29, 2021 (continued)
III. After
August 8, 2021
August 10, 2021
The Wild Horses of Tybee Island: February 1, 2018
August 10, 2021 (continued)
August 16, 2021
August 20, 2021
August 21, 2021
August 21, 2021 (continued)
September 10, 2021
September 26, 2021
Interview #9: Winter 2022
September 28, 2021
November 24, 2021
November 25, 2021
December 26, 2021
December 28, 2021
What Death Is: 2023
December 29, 2021
March 13, 2022
August 2022
Interview #10: Winter 2022
Obituary
Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 42 b&w photos
Verlagsort Wisconsin
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Trennung / Trauer
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-299-34744-3 / 0299347443
ISBN-13 978-0-299-34744-4 / 9780299347444
Zustand Neuware
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