Aftermath Of Forever: How I Loved, Lost, and Found Myself

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After a painful divorce Natalye Childress found herself once more hitting the San Francisco dating scene. This coming-of-age memoir follows the hopes, disappointments and revelations of Natalye's 20s after she embarks on a soul searching journey to discover what happens when the one you thought you would be with forever breaks your heart. Using music as a vehicle to express herself, she revisits 10 men from her past and paints of portrait of their relationships through the mixtapes she has made them. She candidly dissects her loves, mistakes and mishaps.

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The Aftermath of Forever is a personal and private look into the mistakes and romantic experiments that follow the crushing disappointment of being blindsided by divorce. On an even higher level, though, the book is really about one thing: an upset 20-something transitioning into adulthood. - Last Weeks Memoir

Most people like to pretend they don't have dirty laundry, but Childress gleefully airs hers to the world. If Helen Fielding grew up keeping a sexy Tumblr and listening to indie bands, she might have been able to write a book like this. - Chad Matheny, Emperor X

With unflinching honesty and exquisite spareness, Natalye Childress explores the spectrum of romantic love, in its tender, wild, painful, and redeeming dimensions. Though each of these finely tuned pieces can stand alone, when they are read together and in sequence the collection achieves a striking intensity of narrative momentum and richness of emotional resonance. - Noelle Oxenhandler, author of The Wishing Year and The Eros of Parenthood

Author Bio

Natalye Childress is a writer, an editor, and a music journalist. She formerly worked for the Associated Press, Crittenden Research, and thePress Democrat in Santa Rosa, California. She is currently the editor of Berlin Beat and writes for Slow Travel Berlin.