Notes to Self: Essays

Notes to Self: Essays

The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hideâ€”from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love.

WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR â€¢Â â€œEmilie Pineâ€™s voice is razor-sharp and raw; her story is utterly original yet as familiar as my own breath.â€â€”Glennon Doyle, #1Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ Love Warrior

In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her lifeâ€”those emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes with radical honesty on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic parent, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. This is the story of one woman, and of all women.

Devastating, poignant, and wiseâ€”and joyful against the oddsâ€”Notes to Self is an unforgettable exploration of what it feels like to be alive, and a daring act of rebellion against a society that is more comfortable with womenâ€™s silence.

Praise for Notes to Self

â€œNotes to SelfÂ begins as a deceptively simple catalogue of the injustices of modern female life and slyly emerges as a screaming treatise on just what it means to make your own rules, turning the hand youâ€™ve been dealt into the coolest game in town. Emilie Pine is like your best friendâ€”if your best friend was so sharp she drew blood.â€â€”Lena Dunham, #1Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ Not That Kind of Girl

â€œTo read these essays is to understand the human condition more clearly, to reassess oneâ€™s place in the world, and to reclaim oneâ€™s own experiences as real and valid.â€â€”Sunday Independent

â€œHarrowing, clear-eyed . . . Everyone should consider [this] priority reading.â€â€”Sunday Business Post

â€œIncredible and insightfulâ€”an absolute must-read.â€â€”The SkinnyÂ

â€œAgonizing, uncompromising, starkly brilliant. . . . [A] short, gleamingly instructive book, both memoir and psychological explorationâ€”a platform for that insistent internal voice that almost any woman . . . wishes they had ignored.â€â€”Financial Times

â€œDo not read this book in public. It will make you cry.â€â€”Anne Enright
Country USA
Brand Dial Press Trade Paperback
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ReleaseDate 2019-06-11
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EANs 9781984855459

Country	USA
Brand	Dial Press Trade Paperback
Manufacturer	Dial Press Trade Paperback
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	unknown
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2019-06-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781984855459

Notes to Self: Essays

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