Vessels

Daniel Raeburn

An unforgettable portrait of a marriage tested to its limits.

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 Memoir of What Wasn't is the story of how the couple 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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