Hestia strikes a match
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
ISBN
9780374609979, 0374609977
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780374609979, 0374609977
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The year is 2023, and things are bad -- bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to αght for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they're leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it's Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against friends. Hestia has left journalism (too much war reporting) for a job at a Baltimore retirement village on the Inner Harbor (lots of security). She's single and adrift, save for her coworkers and Mildred, an eighty-four-year-old, thrice-happily-married resident who gleefully supports Hestia's half-hearted but hopeful attempts to αnd love again in a time of chaos and disunion. She reckons with the big questions (How do we live in the midst of political collapse? How do we love people who believe terrible things?) and the little ones (How do I decorate a nonworking fireplace? Can I hook up with a mime?), all while wrestling with that simmering, roiling, occasionally boiling feeling that things are decidedly not okay, but we have to keep going, one foot in front of the other, because maybe, just maybe, we can still αnd the kinds of relationships that sustain a person through anything. Christine Grillo's "Hestia Strikes a Match" is an irreverent, incisive, laugh-out-loud interrogation of modern love of all kinds, in all its messy beauty. Equal parts wise and hilarious, it αlls the heart, fortiαes the spirit, and will surely help to fend o despair. In the face of the everyday wildness of our times, it asks and answers that newly constant question: How do we make a full, wonderfully ordinary life when the whole mad world is clattering down around us?
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Grillo, C. (2023). Hestia strikes a match (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Grillo, Christine, 1969-. 2023. Hestia Strikes a Match. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Grillo, Christine, 1969-. Hestia Strikes a Match Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Grillo, Christine. Hestia Strikes a Match First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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