We All Come Home Alive

Anna Beecher

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English

Weidenfeld & Nicolson
29 April 2025

Memoirs; Literary essays; Family & relationships; Pregnancy, birth & baby care

A life is made up of many shocks -

The scream of wheels over asphalt as cars collide.

The unexpected death of a loved one and the long trek of grief.

The swift loss of a mind and the work of refinding it, raw and quivering as a newborn mouse.

The brutality of teenage girlhood. The abiding temptation of hunger. The stumbling spinning magic of drunkenness. The cost.

The violent acts of others.

The falling into love, for once utterly awake.

Birth: the tearing open of a body and of reality itself.

In We All Come Home Alive, Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the moments which remade her. Written with wisdom and luminous beauty, this is a book that offers consolation and companionship, for readers of Emilie Pine's Notes to Self or Maggie O'Farrell's I Am, I Am, I Am.

By: Anna Beecher
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781399608077
ISBN 10: 139960807X
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 29 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Anna Beecher's work is about love. She is interested in dignity, rebellion and lives shaped by loss. She is a graduate of the Fiction MFA at the University of Virginia and a winner of the $10,000 Henfield Prize for Fiction. Anna has written widely for theatre and performance and her work has been presented by venues including Lincoln Centre, Southbank Centre and the Barbican. She teaches creative prose writing at the University of Virginia.

Reviews for We All Come Home Alive

I could NOT put this down. We All Come Home Alive is an intricate and tender weave of girlhood, growing pains, and what it means to live inside our bodies. It's an utterly perfect book and Anna Beecher is a revelation -- Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB