Janna Cawrse Esarey
Auteur de The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Photo by Midori Jordan
Œuvres de Janna Cawrse Esarey
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1971-11-22
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Études
- Georgetown University, MA, English
Whitman College, BA, Philosophy - Professions
- writer, Mom, teacher, pretzel-maker, dude ranch cook
- Relations
- Graeme "the saint" Esarey (partner)
- Organisations
- Jack Straw Writing Program, Teach For America, Pacific NW Writers Association
- Prix et distinctions
- Jack Straw Writer 2008, New Orleans New Teacher of the Year 1998, William Soper Prize in Philosophy 1994, Phi Beta Kappa
- Agent
- Rebecca Oliver (William Morris Endeavor)
- Courte biographie
- Janna Cawrse Esarey was born in 1971 in San Diego, California. When she was just an ankle biter, her family relocated to Yokosuka, Japan, where her dad was a dentist in the Navy. When Janna was four, her parents went ocean sailing with friends. They capsized (twice) in a typhoon off the coast of Japan.
The family moved to Seattle where Janna grew up. In high school, Janna fell in love with Crosby, Stills, and Nash’s song “Southern Cross” and swore she would one day sail the world. Janna’s mom, recalling her own typhoon experience, didn’t know if this was an idle threat or a cruel joke.
Janna attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where she fell in love with a fisherman. He dumped her. While Janna was earning an MA in English at Georgetown, that fisherman came crawling back. She dumped him. After Janna taught in New Orleans with Teach For America, a program committed to ending educational inequity, that fisherman came crawling back again. This time they tied the knot and set out across the Pacific on a 35-foot sailboat.
During the two years that Janna spent sailing from Seattle to Hong Kong, she wrote for sailing magazines, including SAIL and CRUISING WORLD, and anthologies, including MORE SAND IN MY BRA and SWEAT AND THE CITY. It wasn’t until she moved back to the States in 2006 that she began serious work on her relation/ship memoir, THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN: 1 SMALL BOAT, 2 AVERAGE LOVERS, AND A WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF WIFE. Janna blogs about relationships for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at “Happily Even After.”
Membres
Critiques
Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average… par Janna Cawrse Esarey
I can only hope not all women are so deeply entangled in their analysis of how everything is tied into them. A good read anyway and quite illuminating. (know they enemy)
This wasn't at all what I was expecting when I picked it up, and it's difficult to review it for what it actually was, rather than what I wanted it to be. Had I read the notes on the back of the book, I'd most likely have stayed away.
I wanted a travelogue, an adventure tale, a story of what it's like to cross the ocean in a sailboat. What I got was a lot of navel-gazing, a lot of detail about the author's marginally unhappy marriage, backstory about the relationship, and more than I ever needed to know about the trauma that is deciding to keep one's name, change one's name, or hyphenate. I wasn't knocked out by the writing- it wasn't bad writing, but it struck me as bloggy, chatty, casual plus there were some hugely annoying quirks- like instead of saying 'biked' the author always said 'pedal pedal pedaled'. There were whole chapters devoted to musings about the marriage, chapters where I could have been reading about the places they were mooring, but no.
There were some parts I enjoyed, when they were working together on the boat, or when a storm was coming up, or when the action moved out of the author's head. There was just too much soul-searching and not enough sailing for me.
Not my cup of tea, in short.… (plus d'informations)
I wanted a travelogue, an adventure tale, a story of what it's like to cross the ocean in a sailboat. What I got was a lot of navel-gazing, a lot of detail about the author's marginally unhappy marriage, backstory about the relationship, and more than I ever needed to know about the trauma that is deciding to keep one's name, change one's name, or hyphenate. I wasn't knocked out by the writing- it wasn't bad writing, but it struck me as bloggy, chatty, casual plus there were some hugely annoying quirks- like instead of saying 'biked' the author always said 'pedal pedal pedaled'. There were whole chapters devoted to musings about the marriage, chapters where I could have been reading about the places they were mooring, but no.
There were some parts I enjoyed, when they were working together on the boat, or when a storm was coming up, or when the action moved out of the author's head. There was just too much soul-searching and not enough sailing for me.
Not my cup of tea, in short.… (plus d'informations)
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I liked the authors writing a lot. She is easy to read with great descriptions. You don't have to know anything about sailing to understand it here. I loved the descriptions of and lessons learned from relationships with not just her husband, but her friends and parents. I liked most of the book, but there are 2 chapters that really bothered me. Protected birds being killed and cock fighting. I am relieved she didn't get to Alaska, I may have had to hear her describe baby seal bashing.
This is a smart, delightful read about newlyweds that decide to follow their wildest dreams, take a couple of years off from work and sail to foreign ports on their honeymoon. It’s a moving memoir that reads like fiction. Although it’s an adventure story about sailing, the heart of the story is about love and marriage; the passion as well as the doubts that live within any relationship. Janna Cawrse’s writing style is clear and unhindered as she allows the reader a glimpse into her inner most thoughts, inspiring introspection and reflection, not just on relationships, but also on the cultural differences of the people they encounter along the way. The book has humorous moments and poignant ones as may be expected; this couple is living at sea, in close quarters, for an extended amount of time in a boat that is seaworthy but not entirely trustworthy, posing challenges of its own. In summary a perfect beach read; light and entertaining, but also great for anyone who longs to take an adventure like this. It’s also great for anyone who enjoys reading about relationships as I think this was the true strength of this story.
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Review previously posted at: www.princetonbookreview.com
Find us on Face book http://www.facebook.com/#%21/pages/Princeton-Book-Review/73532562757… (plus d'informations)
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 87
- Popularité
- #211,168
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 2
