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A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation The Crane Wife with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this elegant masterpiece (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all.
Hauser builds her lifes inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience thats rich like a complicated dessertnot for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites. The New York Times
Hausers wry, introspective investigation of her assumptions about love will likely free readers to examine their own personal narratives as well ... The rare happy ending I appreciate is one that makes room for the whole painful fact of the world at the same time it offers the reader some joy, she writes. The Crane Wife embraces this philosophy again and again as Hauser excavates her past loves and losses, thoughtfully examines them and declares the pain of love to be worth the risk. BookPage
Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realized shed almost signed up to live someone elses life.
Hauser releases herself from traditional narratives of happiness and goes looking for ways of living that leave room for the unexpected, making plenty of mistakes along the way. She kisses Internet strangers and officiates at a wedding. She rereads Rebecca in the house her boyfriend once shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. She thinks about Florence Nightingale at a robot convention and grief at John Belushis rock and roll gravesite, and the difference between those stories were asked to hold versus those we choose to carry.
Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose life doesnt look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing; for everyone trying, if sometimes failing, to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home, to live in.

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ALSO BY CJ HAUSER Family of Origin The From-Aways Copyright 2022 by CJ - photo 1

ALSO BY CJ HAUSER

Family of Origin

The From-Aways

Copyright 2022 by CJ Hauser All rights reserved Published in the United States - photo 2

Copyright 2022 by CJ Hauser

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.doubleday.com

DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to New Directions Publishing Corp. for permission to reprint an excerpt from Tell Them No from Be With by Forrest Gander, copyright 1995, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 by Forrest Gander. Excerpt from The Ivy Crown from The Collected Poems: Volume II, 19391962 by William Carlos Williams, copyright 1953 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Several pieces originally appeared in the following publications: Electric Literature: The Man Behind the Curtain (December 12, 2019) The Guardian: This Is Small Talk Purgatory: What Tinder Taught Me about Love (December 7, 2019)

Lit Hub: My Niece Is Probably the Reincarnation of Shirley Jackson: CJ Hauser on Motherhood and The Haunting of Hill House (July 2019) The Paris Review: The Crane Wife (July 2019); The Second Mrs. de Winter (October 13, 2020)

Slice Magazine: The Mechanicals (Winter 2014)

Tin House: Blood: Twenty-six Love Stories from Life (Winter 2016)

Cover illustration by Megan Galante

Cover design by Emily Mahon

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING - IN - PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Hauser, CJ. author.

Title: The crane wife : a memoir in essays / CJ Hauser.

Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, [2022]

Identifiers: LCCN 2021043397 | ISBN 9780385547079 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385547109 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT : Essays.

Classification: LCC PS3608.A8697 C73 2022 | DDC 814/.6dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021043397

Ebook ISBN9780385547109

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in gratitude for

the family we are given

the families we are choosing

& ideas of home with room enough for both

Stumbling again

dumbly

home into the

line of my

own questioning.

FORREST GANDER , TELL THEM No

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I sometimes not even our mouths belong to us Listen in the early 1920s - photo 4 I sometimes not even our mouths belong to us Listen in the early 1920s women - photo 5

sometimes not even our mouths belong to us. Listen, in the early 1920s, women were paid to paint radium onto watch dials so that men wouldnt have to ask

the time in dark alleys. They were told it was safe, told to lick their brushes into sharp points. These women painted their nails, their faces, and judged

whose skin shined brightest. They coated their teeth so their boyfriends could see their bites with the lights turned down. The miracle here

is not that these women swallowed light. Its that, when their skin dissolved and their jaws fell off, the Radium Corporation claimed they all died

from syphilis. Its that youre telling me about the dull slivers of dead saints, while these women are glowing beneath our feet.

PAIGE LEWIS , THE MOMENT I SAW A PELICAN DEVOUR

Blood

TWENTY - SEVEN LOVE STORIES

I | PUT YOUR BOOTS ON, 1918

Cap Joyce was a cowboy who ran an Arizona dude ranch called the Spur Cross because acting like a cowboy, for tourists, was more lucrative than the actual herding of cattle. He had a trick horse named Patches that could bow, roll over, and nod the answers to math questions. Sometimes Cap stood on Patchess back and played guitar. Then the Great War came. He sold Patches and left his wife in charge of the ranch and went off to fight in France, where he was mustard-gassed, but survived, and was heavily be-medaled for the trouble. He was my great-grandfather.

Cap had been home a week when the ranch hands took him aside and said that his wife had been carrying on with the foreman. They wouldnt have mentioned it, the ranch hands said, except they didnt seem to be stopping.

Cap said, Where is he?

Cap went to the bunks. The foreman was dressing.

You fuck my wife? Cap said.

The man froze. Yes, he said.

Cap said, Put your boots on.

The foreman put on his boots.

Cap shot him dead. He did not bleed much, they say.

II | UNION MAID, 1984

My first kiss was a communist. His name was Jack. He was part of a kids playgroup in New York City. All the mothers were part of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union except for mine. Her involvement remains a mystery.

In the playgroup, the babies crawled over the carpet and the mothers shared pots of coffee and by and large the babies were naked and if they were not naked they were wearing overalls. Good communist babies wear overalls.

Here are some of the things that I wore: a tiny pair of lederhosen (Germany), a real silk kimono with a red bird stitched on the breast (Japan), a rabbit-fur coat with wood fasteners (Russia). My grandparents had been traveling and always sent me, the first grandchild, souvenirs.

There is a picture of this first kiss. Jack, in overalls, is on hands and knees, long black hair in ringlets. I am practically bald, bending toward him, hands planted on the rug. I am wearing a pink velveteen jacket (Paris).

A week later the union ladies said: You cant keep coming if you dress her like that. The week after, my mother brought me to the group in the rabbit-fur coat, not thinking the union ladies were serious. They were.

III | THE LAND OFFICE, 1921

When Cap got out of prison he went to the land office with a mind to start a new ranch in Wyoming. There was a woman at the front desk, a secretary. Her name was Robbie Baker.

Can I help you? she said.

Im going to marry you, Cap said. And I need some land.

That was my great-grandmother.

IV | BEESTING, 1989

Brian Katrumbus could run faster than any boy in kindergarten and had hair like corn silk. It was Valentines Day. A week earlier, when Id been stung by a bee while daydreaming out the window and then cried quietly, not knowing what to do, it was Brian Katrumbus who told the teacher that something was wrong with me. He poked the teacher and said, Something is wrong with her.

Id picked out a very special valentine for Brian Katrumbus. I wore a Band-Aid over my small wound the day I watched him open his envelopes, waiting to see how he would receive my card. But Brian Katrumbus had a system. He ripped open each envelope, and then shook it, so whatever candy was inside tumbled out onto his carpet square.

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