Austen Years
A Memoir in Five Novels
by Rachel Cohen
Pub Date 12 May 2020
I am reviewing a copy of The Austen Years through Farrah, Strauss and Giroux, and Netgalley:
In the time between the birth of her first child and the death of her Father, Rachel Cohen found herself turning to Jane Austen to make a better sense of this new reality of hers. She had been simultaneously grief stricken and had her spirits lifted by the birth of her daughter. Austen’s novels helped her to answer the hard questions about her grief, her mourning and She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing.
In Austen years we get a deep look at the writers relationship to reading, it is written in a heartfelt and sensitive matter, allowing the readers a deeper emotional understanding to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. This book allows you to see how her reading of Austen helped her through a time of loss.
If you are awesome fan, a reader of Austen novels you will love Austen Years.
I give The Austen Years five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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