"A piercing, challenging, and incredibly intimate memoir which envelops you in its folds as it revisits memories, ideas of femininity, control, and imagination."
Hitting like a bolt of lightening, this powerful and provocative memoir is one I will be recommending far and wide. Although incredibly personal, it will likely strike an emotional chord with many as it wanders the corridors of memories and examines the traps that lie within. Sarah Moss writes novels, they often walk into darkness and her Ghost Wall which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019 is one that will forever stay with me.
As soon as I saw she had written a memoir I was intrigued but had no idea as to the journey I would follow. I absolutely love how she has written this, worlds almost splatter across the page declaring meaning and although questioning memory, it feels like truth. She validates feelings, allows them freedom to explore and they kept me company as I read.
She writes with eloquence, wit, and thoughtfulness as she touches on childhood, relationships, anorexia, and her thoughts and imagination. There are an abundance of insights and slices of inspiration to take away with you and I just had to choose this as not only a Liz Pick of the Month but also a LoverReading Star Book.
My Good Bright Wolf is rather special, it gives, it inspires, it challenges. Highly recommended.
"Heartbreaking . . . Beautiful." --Amanda Seyfried, The New Yorker Long-listed for the National Book Critics Award for AutobiographyA Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, The Independent, and the New York Public LibraryA Must-Read: New York, Los Angeles Times, Library Journal, Shelf AwarenessFrom the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater, and The Fell, Sarah Moss's My Good Bright Wolf is an unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves. A girl must watch her figure but never be vain. She must be intelligent but never a know-it-all. She must be ambitious, if she is clever, but not in a way that shows. She must cook and sew and make do and mend. She must know (but never say) that these skills are, in some fundamental way, flawed and frivolous--feminine. Girls must stay small, even as they grow. Women must show restraint. And yet. In books, in the landscape of imagination, a girl can run free. Here, with My Good Bright Wolf, Sarah Moss takes on these rules, these lessons from the fables of girlhood, and uses them to fearlessly investigate the nature of memory, the lure of self-control, the impact of privilege, scarcity, parents, love. Through narratives of women and food, second-wave feminism and postwar puritanism, and her own challenges with a health care system that discounts the experiences of those it ought to serve, Moss seeks truth in the stories we tell ourselves and others. Harm can become power. Attention can become care. A body and a mind, though working hard together, can be at odds. And yet. In books, in the landscape of imagination, a girl can run free. Beautiful and sharp, moving and unapologetic, erudite and very funny, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir that breaks the rules.
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"Heartbreaking . . . Beautiful." --Amanda Seyfried, The New Yorker Long-listed for the National Book Critics Award for AutobiographyA Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, The Independent, and the New York Public LibraryA Must-Read: New York, Los Angeles Times, Library Journal, Shelf AwarenessFrom the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater, and The Fell, Sarah Moss's My Good Bright Wolf is an unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves.
My Good Bright Wolf features in the following genres: Book Club Recommendations, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Biographies & Autobiographies, Mind, body, spirit, Self Help and Personal Development, Memoirs, Autobiography: writers, Coping with / advice about eating disorders, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Literature: history and criticism, Memoirs, Relating to childhood, Eating disorders and therapy
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My Good Bright Wolf was written by Sarah Moss and published by Picador USA
My Good Bright Wolf has 320 pages
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