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Published:
New York : Random House, [2022].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
ix, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780525509943, 0525509941, 0525509941, 9780525509943

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Description
"Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion--a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates a harrowing escape from California's deadliest wildfire, visits an eccentric Frenchman building a town at what he claims is the center of the world, shadows a man through his first day of freedom after twenty-one years in prison, and more--all with a deep conviction that it's our vulnerability, not our victories, that connect us. Mooallem's powers of perception have established him as one of the most distinctive, empathic, and clear-sighted narrative journalists working today. The Wall Street Journal has called his writing "as much art as it is journalism," and Jia Tolentino has praised his "grace and command." In Serious Face, Mooallem brings to life the desperate hopes and urgent fears of the people he meets, telling their stories with empathy, humor, insight, and kindness. These elegant, moving essays form an idiosyncratic tapestry of human experience: our audacity and fallibility, our bumbling and goodwill. In moments of calamity and within the extreme absurdity of everyday life, can we learn to love the people we really are, behind the serious faces we show the world?" --,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation (style guide)

Mooallem, J. (2022). Serious face: essays. First edition. Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Mooallem, Jon. 2022. Serious Face: Essays. Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Mooallem, Jon, Serious Face: Essays. Random House, 2022.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Mooallem, Jon. Serious Face: Essays. First edition. Random House, 2022.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

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