{"product_id":"it-takes-a-worried-woman-essays-paperback","title":"It Takes a Worried Woman: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDebra Monroe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebra Monroe has always written about the source of trouble, \"that one incident you zero down to and everything bad that happens afterward happens because of it.\" The illusion that every problem has a clear-cut cause and discernible solution is apparently her gateway drug. \u003ci\u003eIt Takes a Worried Woman\u003c\/i\u003e explores the outer limits of her faith that all past hardship could have been prevented and all future hardship might still be. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYet one person's trouble is often a small eddy in the outflow of history, and this book becomes a meditation on the price of effort exerted against fixed circumstances. Dense with history, lyrical, at times darkly funny, these essays explore sexism, racism, hate speech, violence, Monroe's grief about dwindling access to the natural world, and her fears as her daughter's adult life unfolds. Whether depicting the ubiquitous pressure to marry, the search for a shape-shifting familiar old enough to be her mother, or childcare as a game of risk, Monroe takes a measured look at problems that could be solved, problems that may never be, and at all the ways that trouble is big but hope, new strategies, fresh patience, and endurance are eventually big enough.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEBRA MONROE is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Source of Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eA Wild, Cold State\u003c\/i\u003e; two novels, \u003ci\u003eNewfangled\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShambles\u003c\/i\u003e; two memoirs, \u003ci\u003eOn the Outskirts of Normal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Unsentimental Education \u003c\/i\u003e(both Georgia); and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eIt Takes a Worried Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia). She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Creative Nonfiction.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Austin, Texas, and teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760860922144,"sku":"9780820363080","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/28f5879c13702567064b568799b0851e.webp?v=1780192087","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/it-takes-a-worried-woman-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}