Vessels: A Love Story
When Dan, a writer with a passion for underground comics, and his wife Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, met through a mutual friend, they swiftly fell in love. "Of all the women I've ever met," Dan told a friend, "she's the first one who felt like family." But at Christmas, as they prepared for the birth of their first child, tragedy struck.
Based on Daniel Raeburn's acclaimed New Yorker essay, Vessels: A Love Story is the story of how he and Bekah clashed and clung to each other through a series of unsuccessful pregnancies before finally, joyfully, becoming parents. In prose as handsomely unadorned as his wife's pottery, Raeburn recounts a marriage cemented by the same events that nearly broke it.
Vessels is an unflinching, enormously moving account of intimacy, endurance, and love.
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One of the most beautifully sad and mesmerizing books of the year.
This is one of the wisest, saddest, most beautiful books about love that I've ever read.--Tom Bissell
A poignant expression of how two young people matured as they created a family . . . [and] also a celebration of the way that birth--even if that birth ends in sudden death--brings new life to parents. An eloquently candid memoir.
Vessels is a brilliant and dazzling story about love, marriage, and family. In a prose so transparent that you feel as if it's your own experience, Daniel Raeburn has written a beautiful book about loss and redemption.--Susan Cheever
Vessels should be in the company of memoirs such as Darkness Visible by William Styron, about depression. Both are books that speak to one issue, yet find the thread that connects us all.--Tara Shafer
