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Laurie Alberts : Fault Line (American Lives)

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Laurie Alberts : Fault Line (American Lives)

Laurie Alberts : Fault Line (American Lives)
University of Nebraska Press | March 1, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0803210655 | 175 pages | PDF | 1 MB

In this latest entry in the American Lives series, novelist Alberts (The Price of Land in Shelby, 1996) writes a candid, self-lacerating memoir about her first love. She met Kim Janek in 1969 when he was a brilliant student attending Harvard on a physics scholarship, and she was a 17-year-old high-school student. Twenty-five years later, Kim's nude and decomposing body was discovered by a rancher on the Wyoming prairie. Among his few possessions was a photograph of the two of them. Although Alberts had not spoken to him in years, she was inconsolable at the news of his death. This memoir is her attempt to find out what happened to him, for she carries a deep fear that she is the one who destroyed him. A central paradox at the core of the narrative is that Alberts is no longer the impulsive, reckless teenager who embarked on that tumultuous relationship. She warns readers: "I knew Kim better than anyone; I was incapable of knowing Kim." A thoughtful, wrenching portrait of obsessive love.