An unforgettable portrait of a marriage tested to its limits. When Dan a writer with a passion for underground comics and his wife Bekah a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics met through a mutual friend they swiftly fell in love. "Of all the women I''ve ever met" Dan told a friend "she''s the first one who felt like family. " But at Christmas as they prepared for the birth of their first child tragedy struck. Based on Daniel Raeburn''s acclaimed New Yorker essay Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn''t is the story of how the couple clashed and clung to each other through a series of unsuccessful pregnancies before finally joyfully becoming parents. In prose as handsomely unadorned as his wife''s pottery Raeburn recounts a marriage cemented by the same events that nearly broke it. Vessels is an unflinching enormously moving account of intimacy endurance and love. . Language: English