Heating Cooling, Beth Ann Fennelly
Heating Cooling, Beth Ann Fennelly
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Heating & Cooling
52 Micro-Memoirs

Author: Beth Ann Fennelly

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Unabridged: 1 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/21/2022

Synopsis

"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband’s sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." —from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to arrive at a portrait of Beth Ann Fennelly as a wife, mother, writer, and deeply original observer of life’s challenges and joys. Some pieces are wistful, some wry, and many reveal the humor buried in our everyday interactions. Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs shapes a life from unexpectedly illuminating moments, and awakens us to these moments as they appear in the margins of our lives.

About Beth Ann Fennelly

Beth Ann Fennelly has published three volumes of poetry and a work of nonfiction, Great with Child. She directs the University of Mississippi's MFA program.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JanB on December 30, 2019

The subtitle of this slim book is '52 micro-memoirs' and they are indeed micro. They are all less than one page and some are simply one line. In this essay collection and musings of one woman's life, some were amusing but others ventured into TMI territory and should have been left out. It was a ple......more

Goodreads review by Joshilyn on August 07, 2017

Scott was making dinner, so I curled up on the sofa with the old cat. I read the first micro-memoir in HEATING AND COOLING by Beth Ann Fennelly, read it again, and then I had to ruin the cat’s life by getting up and going to the kitchen to read it aloud to Scott. This happened four more times, at wh......more

Goodreads review by britt_brooke on September 15, 2023

I’m a big memoir fan and I loved this unique take on the genre. Fennelly presents snippets of her life that give you almost enough. I appreciate the missing pieces. The style works. These thoughtfully-written essays range from a couple sentences to a few short pages. I want more!......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on December 01, 2017

A small but potent book with essays that touch on love, marriage, parenting, and writing. A good fistful of these pages just skewered my heart real nice.......more

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