Austen years : a memoir in five novels
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285).

"A woman finds solace in Jane Austen following the death of her father and the birth of her child"--,Provided by publisher.

In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen's novels. This is her memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large. -- adapted from jacket