Description: Further DetailsTitle: Craigslist ConfessionalCondition: NewSubtitle: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous StrangersAuthor: Helena Dea BalaFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 1982114975EAN: 9781982114978ISBN: 9781982114978Publisher: GalleryGenre: BiographyRelease Date: 26/10/2021Description: “Touching.” —The New York Times For fans of Humans of New York and PostSecret, a collection of raw, urgent, and heartfelt stories, shared anonymously.Helena Dea Bala was an exhausted and isolated DC lobbyist, suffocating under the weight of her student loan debt, when she decided to split her lunch with a man who often panhandled near her office. They chatted effortlessly as they ate; there were no half-truths or white lies, and no fear of judgment. Helena felt connected and unburdened in a way she hadn’t in years. Inspired, she posted an ad on Craigslist promising to listen, anonymously and for free, to whatever the speaker felt he or she couldn’t tell anyone else. Emails from people desperate to connect flooded her inbox, and she listened. Within months, Helena quit her job, deferred her loans, and dove into listening full time. The forty first-person confessions in this book are vivid, intimate, and real; they range from devastating traumas, to lost loves, to reflections on hard choices. Some accounts are quotidian, like that of one increasingly estranged husband: “I want to feel that we’re not just roommates—that we’re not just waiting for the kids to grow up so that we can move on.” Others are deeply disconcerting, like that of a sex addict employed by a religious organization and several are heartening, like that of a mother who dares to hope that her daughter, born with life-threatening heart defects, will one day walk down the aisle: “Sometimes you need to have the audacity to believe that it will all be okay, that it is okay to have the same kinds of dreams as everyone else.” In its complex portrayal of the common human experience, Craigslist Confessional challenges us to explore the depths of our vulnerability and expand the borders of our empathy.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 213mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 247gType: Arts & LiteratureRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Craigslist Confessional
Publication Name: Craigslist Confessional
Title: Craigslist Confessional
Subtitle: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers
Author: Helena Dea Bala
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1982114975
EAN: 9781982114978
ISBN: 9781982114978
Publisher: Gallery
Genre: Biography
Release Date: 26/10/2021
Release Year: 2021
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 213mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 247g
Type: Arts & Literature
