THE WAY WE WEREN’T: A MEMOIR

Book ID/图书代码： 03371015B84097

English Summary/英文概要： After years of futon passion, Hemingway discussions, and three-mile runs, Jill Talbot’s relationship with a man carved in her doubts so deep she wrote to ignore them. And even though he was as unwilling to commit to a place or a job as Talbot was to marrying him, he insisted that she keep the baby when a pregnancy surprised them during their fourth year together. As it turned out, Kenny wasn’t able to commit to a child either, so when the court ordered visitation and support for their four-month-old daughter, he vanished. His disappearing act was the catalyst for Talbot’s own, as she moved her daughter through nine states in as many years--running from the memory of their failed relationship and the hope of an impossible reunion, all the while raising a daughter on her own. Then, one day while packing boxes, she found a photograph that changed everything. In this memoir-in-essays, Talbot attempts to set the record straight, even as she argues that our shared histories are merely competing stories we choose to tell ourselves. A bold look at the challenges of love and the struggles of a single mother in America today, The Way We Weren’t tells a complex, unforgettable story of loss and leaving, and of how Talbot learned that writing can’t bring anything back, but that because of it, nothing is ever really lost.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在与一个男人经历了数年的床笫之欢，讨论了几次海明威，跑了不少个三英里之后，Jill Talbot对于自己和这个男人之间的关系充满了疑惑，甚至不得不写下来，才能安心继续生活。但尽管他不愿意安定下来找份工作或待在同一个地方，也不想和Talbot结婚，在两人相处的第四年Talbot意外怀孕之后，他还是坚持让她把孩子生下来。但不出所料，Kenny并没有做好养育孩子的准备，而当法庭判令其探视并抚养他们4个月大的女儿时，他消失了。他的消失成了Talbot的催化剂，导致她在接下来的多年中独自抚养女儿去了九个州，逃离他们失败关系的回忆和对不可能发生的团聚的希望。然后，有一天，她在整理箱子的时候发现了一张照片，改变了一切。在这部散文式的回忆录中，Talbot勇敢直面当代美国单亲母亲所面临的有关爱的挑战和挣扎，讲述了一个令人难忘的有关失去和离开的故事。Talbot也通过这部回忆录明白了写作并不能挽回些什么，但因为写作，让她觉得从未失去。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“说Jill Talbot写作本书是踏入了虚构类和非虚构类的边缘地带有些过于保守。可以说，写作这部作品更像是她从50米跳板一头栽进了虚构类和非虚构类的水池，中途还做了3个转体外加反身跳水。这个令人肝肠寸断的故事让我们不禁产生巨大的疑问——‘人与人之间真的互相认识吗？’‘是我们自己造成了自己的悲惨遭遇吗？’作品讲述了女人是如何与自身相抗争，努力生存的勇敢故事。”——Pam Houston，作家，著有《Contents May Have Shifted》

“Talbot握紧方向盘，带领读者驶入自己斑驳的过去。本书拥有强大的力量，无情却有效地提醒我们：生活就是一条时而平坦时而崎岖的道路，不论我们的经历是多么地普遍，最终都要我们亲自为人生铺平道路。”——B.J. Hollars，作家，著有《Dispatches from the Drownings》

“To say that Jill Talbot steps into the controversial borderlands between fiction and non-fiction with The Way We Weren’t is a vast understatement. It is more like she plunges into them off the fifty-meter springboard, doing three somersaults and a half gainer on the way down. This gut wrenching tale of abandonment (though it is never perfect clear who was the abandoner, who the abandonee) makes us ask giant, soul-bending questions, like ‘Does anyone ever know anyone?’ and ‘Are we always the creators of our own misery?’ A brave story of one woman’s fight to survive, most of all, her own proclivities.” —Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted

"White-knuckled on the steering wheel, Talbot drives her readers headlong into the fray of her own past. Powerful, effective, and relentless, Talbot reminds us that life is always half-highway and half-dirt road, that our experiences—no matter how universal—demand we pave the way ourselves." —B.J. Hollars, author of Dispatches from the Drownings

About the Author/作者介绍： Jill Talbot，《 METAWRITINGS: TOWARD A THEORY OF NONFICTION》的编辑。曾在《NOTRE DAME REVIEW》《UNDER THE SUN》《BLUE MESA REVIEW》《CIMARRON REVIEW》《SEGUE》《ECOTONE》等多本期刊上发表诗歌和散文。

Jill Talbot is the editor of METAWRITINGS: TOWARD A THEORY OF NONFICTION (forthcoming from University of Iowa Press, 2012). She has published poems, essays, and craft essays in journals such as NOTRE DAME REVIEW, UNDER THE SUN, BLUE MESA REVIEW, CIMARRON REVIEW, SEGUE, and ECOTONE.

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