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no words for a review yet- every page is being slowly, carefully integrated into my very beingness

to say Anaïs Nin's prose is deeply, viscerally awakening and allconsuming would be a terrible understatement

the mother who modeled nude for artists and had a relationship with Bill Rivers but then became a housewife who lit up when she danced or saw her old building or talked about Shakespeare.....all of which she rarely did....locked up her glittering wit and intellect in the cage of supporting her husband's business.....that shit broke me + the sneaky racism at play was crazy. Dylan Landis ladies and gentlemen!

Inject every word Melissa Febos has ever written straight into my bloodstream please

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In just 33 pages Febos has opened up the lines of communication to a primordial, feminine force; tapping into its ability to intoxicate and its confusing dualistic nature. The thrill of power and the spiral of shame are made of the same stuff; and the desire to experience both in secret is a universal one.

Chapter 12 may have scarred me forever. Men have caused way too much pain in this world.

Obsessed with Mary Karr's voice: I want her precocius big words, literary allusions, and all the unapologetic down-home southern country-ness of her phrases to sing me a lullaby to sleep at night. Her life story is absolutely fucking crazy. Having read Cherry, which was published later, first, I can say that this book feels slightly behind in maturity level, depth of wisdom, and structure, but I do love the Rawness.

Contreras is a genius and this book is completely exceptional. The pace is flawless. Her individual sentences are micariously beautiful, and at times you wonder how it’s possible to be so potently transported into her world, her body, her mind, and her experiences of something so far beyond words. Knowing the truth in this narrative makes every sentence all the more magnificent, triumphant, and engrossing.