Heating Cooling 52 MicroMemoirs Author:Beth Ann Fennelly ?Imagine the hundred things you enjoy doing most in the world. Reading Heating & Cooling is more fun than 95 of them.??Richard RussoThe 52 micro-memoirs in the genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life. They build on one another to arrive at a portrait of Beth Ann Fennelly as a wife, mother, writer, and deepl... more »y original observer of life?s challenges and joys. Some pieces are wistful, some poignant, and many of them reveal the humor buried below the surface of everyday interactions. Heating & Cooling shapes a life from unexpectedly illuminating moments, and awakens us to these moments as they appear in the margins of our lives.?Insightful and precise. . . . A portrait of a life that is deeply felt and fully awake.??Ann Patchett?Strong and at the same time wonderfully vulnerable. There is a matter-of-fact revelation inherent in her work. I deeply enjoyed this book?deeply.??Dorothy Allison?The pieces . . . look like jewels?finely wrought, lyric and subtle?but they expose themselves as creatures: vital, writhing, surprising, alive.??Leslie Jamison« less