Debra Monroe 
My Unsentimental Education [EPUB ebook] 

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A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of “many delights” (Atlanta Journal Constitution).
 
A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she’s still blue-collar. Negotiating the world of dating, Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a woman ambivalent about her newfound status as “liberated.”
 
Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us “to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, ” Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn’t. Funny, poignant, wise,  My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working-class girl ends up far from where she began.
 
“Trying to be a Midwestern housewife in the tradition of her mother and grandmothers, and an early feminist at the same time, makes for comic incongruity.”—Wisconsin State Journal
 
“Monroe’s candid memoir reads like a country ballad: a down-and-out woman, working gritty jobs, gets entangled with Mr. Completely, Laughably Wrong. But her unexpected story is far from a cliché.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 217 ● ISBN 9780820348735 ● Utgivare University of Georgia Press ● Publicerad 2015 ● Nedladdningsbara 3 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6479625 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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