Heating & Cooling
52 Micro-Memoirs
16 October 2018
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
"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 non-fiction 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 humour 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.
Reviews
"Heating and Cooling contains essays that are sometimes as short as 10 words… but add up to a surprisingly maximalist portrait of a life." — The New York Times Book Review
"The micro-memoirs showcase a range of emotions that belies their brevity—taken from another standpoint, their brevity is what gives them power." — The Wall Street Journal
Also By: Beth Ann Fennelly 
Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother
Paperback, 2011
"May be the best book ever to give for a baby shower."—Tampa Tribune
Unmentionables: Poems
Paperback, 2009
“Insouciant, sexy, funny, and dead-on . . . a startlingly empathetic series of concise and slashing poems.”—Booklist
Open House: Poems
Paperback, 2009
“With its high spirits, its love of textures of different kinds of writing . . . [this] is an immensely lively performance.” —Robert Hass
Unmentionables: Poems
Hardback, 2008
A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" (Harvard Review).
Unmentionables: Poems
E Book, 2008
A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" (Harvard Review).
