THE CHILD WHO NEVER SPOKE, Cristina Nehring
In 2009 Cristina Nehring’s brilliant first book, A Vindication of Love, was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review. An important new voice had appeared in American letters. “Now unexpectedly from Paris comes a heartbreaking and tender memoir, The Child Who Never Spoke (Heliotrope Books, October 2023). These ‘lessons in fragility’ tell of Nehring’s unexpected […]
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Cristina Nehring is an award-winning essayist, scholar, travel writer and memoirist known for her spirited and contrarian reflections on issues as diverse as dating and drinking, Shakespeare, love poetry and intellectual snobs. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Atlantic, Harper’s, Slate, The London Times, Condé Nast Traveler, The American Scholar, Los Angeles Times, […]
Audiobook sale for Cristina Nehring’s THE CHILD WHO NEVER SPOKE
We’re so pleased to share the good news. THE CHILD WHO NEVER SPOKE will be published by a wonderful small press, Heliotrope, in October 2023–and now there will also be an audiobook!
THE CHILD WHO NEVER SPOKE: 23 1/2 Lessons in Fragility, Cristina Nehring

Essayist and author of A Vindication of Love Nehring’s remarkable tribute to her chromosomally-challenged little girl, Eurydice, who awakens a fiercely maternal love and teaches her–and us–about joy. (North American rights/Heliotrope Books/Fall 2023)