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Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen tear-shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear-collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence.

When Heather Christle realizes that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertwine each of their stories, in search of a more hopeful narrative and a future she can live with. Wide-ranging and prismatic, the fruit of an insatiably curious, delightfully brilliant mind, In the Rhododendrons is part memoir, part biography of Virginia Woolf, part reckoning with the things we cannot change and the ways we can completely transform, if we dare.

Heather Christle è come tutti noi: piange. Spesso, in alcuni momenti della vita; poco, in altri. Come capita a tutti, fin da quando siamo piccoli. Piangiamo per gli amici scomparsi e per i figli che nascono, crescono, giocano sul tappeto di casa. A volte, piangiamo senza motivo. A volte, piangiamo per troppi motivi. Ci ricordiamo tutte le lacrime versate, i pianti a dirotto, i singhiozzi? No, con tutta probabilità. Ma cosa direbbero, di noi e della vita, quei pianti, se potessimo riscostruirne la storia e la geografia?