Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

More Than Once Leslie Jamison's Timely, Searching Body Of Work Has Been Compared To That Of Joan Didion And Susan Sontag. Jamison Has Never Shied Away From Challenging Material, Scouring The Depths Of Her Psyche, Eschewing Platitudes, And Mining The Creative World For Rejoinders To Our Most Pressing, Unanswerable Questions. But Splinters Enters A New Realm-an Arena In Which Jamison's Sharp, Tempered Acuity Is Homed On The Two People Closest To Her: Her New Baby, And Her Ex-husband, Whose Anger In The Wake Of Their Daughter's Birth Expands Inside Their Apartment Until There Is Hardly Room To Breathe-- Provided By Publisher.