AUSTEN YEARS

An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to liveAbout seven years ago, not too long b efore our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author.In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen , simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was a ble to re...[Read more]