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THIS STORY WILL CHANGE
After the Happily Ever After
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephon in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admissionI'm not happychanges everything. Suddenly she finds herself separated and in couples therapy, living in an apartment in the city with an old friend and his kid. It's understood that the apartment and bonus family are temporary, but the situation brings unexpected comfort and much-needed healing for wounds even older than her marriage.
Crafting the story as the very events chronicled are unfolding, Crane writes from a place of guarded possibility, capturing through vignettes and collected moments a semblance of the real-time practice of healing. At turns funny and dark, with moments of poignancy, This Story Will Change is an unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in transformation, a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change.
Elizabeth Crane is the author of two novels and four collections of short stories, most recently the novel The History of Great Things (Harper Perennial, 2016) and the story collection Turf (Soft Skull, 2017). She is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award. Her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and adapted for the stage by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. Her debut novel, We Only Know So
Much (Harper Perennial, 2012) has been adapted for film, which premiered in 2018 at the Nantucket Film Festival and won Best Feature at the Big Apple Film Festival. She teaches in the low residency masters
program at UCRiverside Palm Desert.
Crafting the story as the very events chronicled are unfolding, Crane writes from a place of guarded possibility, capturing through vignettes and collected moments a semblance of the real-time practice of healing. At turns funny and dark, with moments of poignancy, This Story Will Change is an unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in transformation, a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change.
Elizabeth Crane is the author of two novels and four collections of short stories, most recently the novel The History of Great Things (Harper Perennial, 2016) and the story collection Turf (Soft Skull, 2017). She is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award. Her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and adapted for the stage by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater. Her debut novel, We Only Know So
Much (Harper Perennial, 2012) has been adapted for film, which premiered in 2018 at the Nantucket Film Festival and won Best Feature at the Big Apple Film Festival. She teaches in the low residency masters
program at UCRiverside Palm Desert.
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Published 2022-08-01 by Counterpoint |