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  • This Story Will Change

  • After the Happily Ever After
  • By: Elizabeth Crane
  • Narrated by: Elizabeth Crane
  • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (42 ratings)

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This Story Will Change

By: Elizabeth Crane
Narrated by: Elizabeth Crane
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Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.

One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas, and Brooklyn, when his unexpected admission—I'm not happy—changes everything. Suddenly she finds herself separated and in couples therapy, living in an apartment in the city with an old friend and his kid. It's understood that the apartment and bonus family are temporary, but the situation brings unexpected comfort and much-needed healing for wounds even older than her marriage.

Crafting the story as the very events chronicled are unfolding, Crane writes from a place of guarded possibility, capturing through vignettes and collected moments a semblance of the real-time practice of healing. At turns funny and dark, with moments of poignancy, This Story Will Change is an unexpected and moving portrait of a woman in transformation, a chronicle of how even the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are bound to change.

©2022 Elizabeth Crane (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Can’t listen just once

I loved the form of this wonderful book - the vignetttes and the telling. It’s a hopeful love story even while also being about heartbreak. I had not read anything by Crane before this book. I came across a recorded event she did with Leslie Jamison and was intrigued. Highly recommend this memoir.

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Excellent!

I confess I have never read anything from this author. An LA times review peaked my interest. Loved this book. She writes with humor and authenticity about a topic many can relate to. I look forward to reading more of her work.

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I love this book

I loved this book so much I restarted it the second it ended. Elizabeth Crane so perfectly captures the grief and confusion and mundane logistics and yearning and independence that comes with the end of a long relationship. The book is beautifully written and narrated. I cannot recommend it highly enough, especially for anyone going through a breakup.

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