Splinters | Granta

  • Published: 16/01/2025
  • ISBN: 9781783788934
  • Granta Books
  • 272 pages

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most intimate relationships of her life – her consuming love for her young daughter, and a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope – and examines what it means for a woman to be many things at once: a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover.

An exceptional read, guiding [the] reader through [Leslie's] thrilling and bitter and fulfilling affairs of the heart

Vogue

Beautifully interwoven and unputdownable... squishing layer upon layer of resonant truths into meticulously crafted paragraphs

Red

[Splinters'] pages are lit by flinty humour and grownup joy as thought and feeling are joined in prose that's intimate and exacting... never less than gripping... A mother-daughter love story that reads like a classic

Hephzibah Anderson, Observer

The Author

Leslie Jamison grew up in Los Angeles. Educated at Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has also worked as an innkeeper in California, a schoolteacher in Nicaragua, and an office temp in Manhattan. She is the NewYork Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic,Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New York Times Magazine, where she is a contributing writer. She directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.

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In Conversation

Leslie Jamison & Margo Jefferson

‘The self is the work of art. Criticism puts that self in the service of other art.’

The authors discuss the multiplicity of the self, the idea of necessity, and how to work with what you lack.

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‘I feel afraid, and I do not know what to make of yesterday’s belief. I can see that belief like an object shimmering underwater, a kind of relic.’