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Memoir: 'Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman' by Lindy West –Defiant and true to herself in the face of constant abuse, West is a warm, capacious and funny writer

Memoir: 'Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman' by Lindy West –Defiant and true to herself in the face of constant abuse, West is a warm, capacious and funny writer | Fabulous Feminism | Scoop.it
West’s memoir is full of a wild, joyous vulgarity and ranges from body images and rape threats to puberty and her love for her husband
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Memoir: Ghost in the Bone by Penny Bunton – A tour de force about surviving adoption, psychological warfare in a family and finding peace

Memoir: Ghost in the Bone by Penny Bunton – A tour de force about surviving adoption, psychological warfare in a family and finding peace | Fabulous Feminism | Scoop.it

This is writing that would be perfectly at home in the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Porter, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor, and echoes the steely intelligence and driest of wit of the inimitable Ivy Compton-Burnett.

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A great new woman writer. Highly recommended.
bobbygw's curator insight, May 16, 2017 12:57 PM
The debut of an astonishingly good writer. Highly recommended.
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Memoir: 'Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body' by Roxane Gay

Memoir: 'Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body' by Roxane Gay | Fabulous Feminism | Scoop.it
Clifford Thompson considers the strengths and shortcomings of Roxane Gay's "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body."
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