Emotionally devastating exploration of love's arrival and departure
- This book could be a good read for anyone who appreciates deep introspection and raw emotions. Melissa Febos delves into the complexities of love, exploring its arrival and eventual disappearance with stunning honesty. Through her beautifully constructed narratives, she invites readers to reflect on their own experiences with love and abandonment. Prepare to be moved and challenged by this captivating memoir.
ISBN: 9781632866585
Authors:
Melissa Febos
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date of Publication: 2018-02-06
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.21
(rated by 2689 readers)
Description
"An intricately constructed and emotionally devastating book about the appearance and disappearance of love." --Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of SpeculationIn her dazzling Abandon Me, Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection--with family, lovers, and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming, long-distance love affair with a woman, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral, erotic prose, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession--and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.At once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art, love, and identity, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories, religion, psychology, mythology, popular culture, and the intimacies of one writer's life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal.
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