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Trying moved me and consumed me; it's a great gutting swirl of grief and freedom and vitality. A searing whispered vision. I am grateful for it -- Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story Caldwell describes desire like no one else... Every sentence is intimate and stunning, and it will take you weeks from when you arrive at the end of this book to extricate yourself from Caldwell's brain, to separate your thoughts from hers, to even want to... In Trying, Caldwell exposes the messiness of growth, forgiveness, and moving on -- Jill Louise Busby, author of Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity In Trying, Caldwell begins and ends alone. A process of creation is thwarted. She repeats the cycle over and over until a rupture ensures it cannot be repeated again. When I finished reading the book, I began it again. I found pleasure in the limbo, in the between. I wanted to be in Caldwell's language forever -- LA Warman, author of Dust and Whore Foods Caldwell's compact and wide-ranging musings are wry, surprising, and fresh -- Amy Fusselman, author of The Means A sly memoir of self-discovery and loss. It is an ode to the countless ways that we try: to love, to forgive, to heal, to parent, to grieve, to rebuild a life. What a humane and vulnerable book -- Isle McElroy, author of People Collide

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Chloe Caldwell is the author of Women (Fourth Estate reissue, 2024), the memoir The Red Zone (Soft Skull, 2022), and the essay collections I'll Tell You in Person (Emily Books/Coffee House Press, 2016) and Legs Get Led Astray (Short Flight/Long Drive reissue, 2017). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Bon Appetit, the Cut, Autostraddle, Longreads, and Nylon.

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