WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW: AUTHOR INTERVIEW, REVIEW, AND GIVEAWAY

WHAT you THOUGHT you KNEW
BY ALICE EVE COHEN

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Alice Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After the formidable divorce, she had the brand brand brand new adore in her life, she was raising the beloved adopted daughter, as great as her career was blossoming. Then she proposed experiencing puzzling symptoms. After months of tests, x-rays, as great as vague diagnoses, Alice underwent the CAT scan which suggested the truth: she was six months pregnant.

At age forty-four, with no prenatal caring as great as no word coverage for the high-risk pregnancy, Alice was besieged by opinions from doctors as great as friends about what was ethical, what was loving, what was right. With the cognisance of the diary as great as the suspense of the thriller, What you Thought you Knew is the ruefully funny, wickedly candid tale; the story of goal as great as renovation which turns all of the "knowns" upside down.

"Darkly hilarious...an unexpected gold of joy."
-O, The Oprah Magazine


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Alice Eve Cohen is the piece for the single person entertainment artist, playwright, as great as memoirist. Her memoir, What you Thought you Knew (Viking, 2009) won the Elle's Lettres 2009 Grand Prix for Nonfiction. She has created for Nickelodeon, PBS, as great as CBS. Her plays have been presented during theatres throughout the country, as great as she has toured her piece for the single person entertainment functions internationally. Her essay about arts in education has been publi! shed in 9 languages. The target of fellowships as great as grants from the New York State Council upon the Arts as great as the National Endowment for the Arts, she binds the BA from Princeton University as great as an MFA from The New School. She teaches during The New School in New York City.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW:

Thank you for this interview. Before you start, can you give readers the list of places they can find out more about you? Website: www.aliceevecohen.comFacebook page is WHAT you THOUGHT you KNEW: A Memoir http://www.facebook.com/pages/WHAT-I-THOUGHT-I-KNEW-A-Memoir/140663689296842?ref=sgmTwitter: AliceEveCohenWhat you Thought you Knew, for sale upon Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/What-Thought-Knew-Alice-Cohen/dp/0143117653/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1272035343&sr=1-1
1. How did you come up with the pretension of your book?
At main moments throughout the memoir, there have been reduced sections titled What you Know. In the book, at your convenience you try to have clarity of overwhelming as great as mystifying events, you have the list of all you know. But time after time, you find out which the What you Know list Ive come up with is definitely wrong. With twenty-twenty hindsight you comprehend which what you suspicion you knew was based upon long-held false assumptions. At the end of the book you eventually get it right.
I consider many people who go by the time of crisis re-evaluate their priorities, reassess the things theyve always taken for granted, subject the things they suspicion they knew. My scattered tour incited all the knowns upside down.
2. Theres the great deal of amusement in your book. Given the hurdles you faced, how were you means to cave so many comedy?
! The hume rous entertainment in my discourse helped me to write the book. It made me laugh as great as enabled me to maintain perspective. you wish the amusement to welcome readers in to the story.
My proceed to storytelling is to interpose as many amusement in to the essay as possible. My preferred survival resource is to find amusement even in the many painful situations. you look for the story value in frightful moments, for the stupidity in intolerable predicaments. you take great wish in self-mockery. Humor is an delectable tacit stipulate with the reader. Audiences will close down when offering the tour of unmitigated bleakness; they will join you as the partner if you pave the highway with humor.
3: Can you describe your essay process for this book?
It took me the integrate of years to recover my romantic footing after my unexpected as great as traumatic pregnancy. It took me many longer to write about it. you attempted multiform times to begin essay the story, though couldnt, as great as soon stopped essay completely. This is the story you have to write, as great as you know it, Alice, said my bullying subconscious. Until you figure out how to write it, you wont assent you to write anything.
One day, quite unexpectedly, you proposed essay againin comprehensive secrecy. you spent the year essay with the frenzied urgency, as if under the spell. you had to finish essay the story, or elseI didnt know what else, though you was sure something bad would occur if you didnt finish it. you became uncharacteristically superstitious: you was afraid which if you stopped essay for even the day, or if you told anybody you was essay this story, the spell would be broken, as great as Id be accursed again with which same demonic as great as depressing stranglehold of writers block. For the year you didnt even tell my father which you was essay the book. That early essay process was something you needed to do for myself, in seq! uence to have clarity of what had happened, so many of which was still deeply troubling to me. Then you was means to edit, rewrite, as great as spin it in to the book.
4. What have been you operative upon now?
Im operative upon the brand brand brand new discourse (working title, MY LEFT EY). Its the story of three generations of mothers as great as daughters. Set multiform years after the events of What you Thought you Knew, my brand brand brand new book is about the family odyssey which incited our universe upside-down. you flay away the onionskin, roving by time to try resonances between events from my childhood as great as my familys scattered year.
5. What recommendation would you give to brand brand brand new or unpublished writers?
Find the essay category which interests you. Having the structure of the weekly category motivates you to write upon the unchanging basis; the great to get feedback from peers upon your work; as great as participating in discussions of alternative students work is the great learning opportunity. you continue to take essay workshops. It exposes me to brand brand brand new ideas as great as deepens my practice, both as the bard as great as as the teacher.http://www.aliceevecohen.com/
MY REVIEW:
Alice Eve Cohen shares her riveting story in her book, WHAT you THOUGHT you KNEW. When Alice Cohen attempted to detect with her afterwards husband, each alloy she went to told her which she was infertile. Wanting young kids so much, they motionless to adopt the kid whilst Alice kept perplexing with the make use of of the dedicated as great as formidable estrogen course of therapy. This went upon for years with no results. Fast forward, as great as years later you find Alice happily operative as the writer, engaged to the beautiful man 10 years younger than she was, as great as happily ca! ring for her wonderful adopted daughter. All this when Alice suddenly began to have strange, unexplained earthy symptoms. At the age of forty-four, Alice went to multiform doctors to try as great as get answers about her bloating as great as alternative symptoms. The diagnoses ranged from menopause, age associated muscle loss, as great as alternative bizarre formula until eventually Alice was even ready to listen to cancer rather than stay in the dark. Well, the light came upon with great luminosity as she was eventually correctly diagnosed; Alice Cohen was profound during forty-four years old!

The story, which is reduced as great as the quick, though powerful read, moves in to second gear as it explains the problems Alice afterwards had in perplexing to find an obstetrician who would treat the tall risk conceiving physically such as hers as great as generally deliberation her illness word which wasnt the best. A alloy who would take upon the 44-year-old lady who was 6 months profound as great as had no prenatal caring is not an ideal case! During the search, Alice entertains thoughts of giving the baby up for embracing the cause as great as deliberation an abortion. In the end, she decides to go by with what she believes is meant to be as great as will accept whatever bieing born defects or hurdles this kid might have.

In the final part, readers have been since an inside look during the final months of conceiving physically as she continued to learn the single of her piece for the single person entertainment classes. As the late teacher, you generally found this part very entertaining even as the relationship with her students had the highs as great as lows. Finally, the baby is born as great as Alice leaves nothing to the imagination as she graphically describes the birth. Her amusement is during times the bit dim though the realism functions so great which it held my interest throughout. WHAT you THOUGHT you KNEW was the book which you associated to so many as great as was means to feel what A! lice was going by as she wrote, which you finished it in the single sitting. A hard life, some tough choices, the brave woman, as great as the unequivocally great read!
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