Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
A Memoir
A raw, lyrical memoir of a woman’s reckoning with desire, shame, and the hunger to be wanted, tracing adolescence into adulthood through fraught relationships, sexual encounters, and the struggle to disentangle self-worth from others’ attention. With candid, essayistic prose, the narrator examines how abandonment—both given and received—shapes compulsive patterns, emotional dependency, and self-sabotage, and shows how confession, therapy, and writing become tools for facing trauma, anger, and longing. The collection is at once intimate and fierce, chronicling the slow, painful work of claiming autonomy, voice, and the possibility of repair.
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- Published
- 2017
- Nationality
- American
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- Unknown
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Original Language
- English
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