Caplan-Bricker, Nora

Overview "This collection of essays charts the emergence of a searching social consciousness throughout a young woman’s early adulthood. Interweaving the genres of memoir, criticism, and narrative journalism, these seven pieces explore the ad hoc nature of a moral education—from formative encounters with art and literature, to experiences that bring new light to the old maxim, the personal is political. These essays range broadly, taking up feminism's conflicted lessons on the subject of loneliness;...