Charles Jensen

Beard

History & Biography

“Kelly Foster Lundquist’s Beard announces the arrival of a powerful voice in memoir. Beard offers an unsentimental, unqualified account of two people discovering themselves around and through the tether of their marriage. In scenes rendered with vivid, wrenching detail, Lundquist presents the complicated algebra of the facts and fictions of those years, giving readers access to even the most vulnerable of moments in her life. What I loved about this book was its tenderness, its compassion. Beard reminds us love is a living, growing, changing force—that it calls us to be the best version of ourselves even in the most difficult moments, and that understanding and forgiveness are not idle acts. They are radical, nourishing, and necessary to thrive with dignity. Lundquist’s work to unpack this story for herself and for us is a gift.”