3.0
Love and Trouble
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Blazingly intelligent, wickedly funny, and piercingly honest, a memoir that captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood, and life itself.
“One of my favorite books of the last few years.” —Cheryl Strayed
“Sentence for sentence, a more pleasure-yielding midlife memoir is hard to think of.” —The Atlantic
At mid-life, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager.
“One of my favorite books of the last few years.” —Cheryl Strayed
“Sentence for sentence, a more pleasure-yielding midlife memoir is hard to think of.” —The Atlantic
At mid-life, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager.
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“A really honest memoir about the messy, confusing parts of feminism, sexuality, and growing up as a girl who both enjoys attention from men and tries to understand what that means in a feminist world. Some parts were painfully relatable… including the reality of how young girls experience objectification before they even know how to process it. Thoughtful, vulnerable, and very real.”“Firstly, I did not find this book funny at all. Secondly there were so many words I didn’t understand, I could have done with a dictionary!
I really love a good memoir but I feel this was a bit lost along the way. I related to the young Claire and the older married Claire but there was so much in between that seemed irrelevant to the supposed point of the book.
Totally thrown by the seemingly obsessive letters to a rapist.
Not for me but did give me a lot to think about.”
About Claire Dederer
CLAIRE DEDERER is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses, which has been translated into twelve languages and which Elizabeth Gilbert called “the book we all need.” A book critic, essayist, and reporter, Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and has also written for The Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, The Nation, and New York magazine, among other publications. She lives on an island near Seattle with her family.
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