{"product_id":"all-of-this-a-memoir-of-death-and-desire-isbn-9780063052673","title":"All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir.”—ROXANE GAY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.”—JENNY LAWSON\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Disturbing and profound, this intimate book also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love...A provocative and memorable work.”—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAll of This\u003c\/em\u003e, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death—and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStunning, compelling, and brilliantly nuanced, \u003cem\u003eAll of This\u003c\/em\u003e is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame—as a mother, a widow, and a sexual being—and emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude and relief.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“This book is an absolute hurricane force of truth and beauty. This book takes our conceptions of love and happiness and throws them into the inferno of reality. Rebecca’s writing is bloody, beautiful, and tender, \u003cem\u003eAll of This\u003c\/em\u003e not only cracks the surface of love and relationships it spelunks into the depths of the human heart. No one is spared and no one ought to be. This book is a triumph.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLYZ LENZ, author of Belabored and God Land, and contributing essayist to Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine…an unforgettable memoir” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eROXANE GAY, bestselling author of Bad Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I started reading \u003cem\u003eAll of This\u003c\/em\u003e as soon as it arrived, and quickly realized that it was going to have my full and feverish attention until I'd devoured the whole thing. It's truly a rare combination of gripping story and immaculate, genius-in-her-prime writing. I had to re-do my makeup like 4 times during the process of reading. I just kept crying. \u003cem\u003eAll of This\u003c\/em\u003e reminded me that honesty saves lives, and that it's an act of love to be truthful about feelings and experiences.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDIABLO CODY, Oscar Award Winning screenwriter and producer of Juno, Jennifer’s Body, and Young Adult\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An authentic and profound book on the complexities of being human. Painfully beautiful, wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare, yet so needed.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJENNY LAWSON, bestselling author of Furiously Happy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Unflinching and brutally precise. Woolf has taken an inventory of the barbaric accouterments of illness, and she presses these details into her scenes like spikes. The barf bags and spit cups, the sponge pops and no-slip socks, the folding canes that give way to tennis-ball-padded walkers and then wheelchairs: It’s a singular category of horror and she nails it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeghan Daum, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Woolf takes readers on a journey that is nothing if not unforgettable… brutally honest and empowering tale of a woman who emerges from her marriage and her husband’s final illness like a butterfly from a chrysalis—not neatly or painlessly, but nonetheless beautiful to behold… Be prepared to laugh, to cry …readers will definitely be glad they got on this roller coaster with her.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stark, real, and very brave, Rebecca Woolf's \u003cem\u003eAll of This\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most true books I've ever read about grief and the relationships that bring it to us. Add to cart now because this astounding book is going to blow your mind.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Bidwell Smith, author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Disturbing and profound, this intimate book about one woman’s path to personal liberation also reveals the sometimes-labyrinthine nature of the bonds that unite people in love A provocative and memorable work of autobiography.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889629753573,"sku":"NP9780063052673","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063052673.jpg?v=1730231633","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/all-of-this-a-memoir-of-death-and-desire-isbn-9780063052673","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}