Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)

Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)

USD $27.00 Gina Frangello [Writer] Published by-Catapult

Available: Usually Ships in 10 Days

About the Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A Good Morning America Recommended Book • A LitReactor Best Book of the Year • A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Rumpus Most Anticipated Book of the Year A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of the Month
 
"A pathbreaking feminist manifesto, impossible to put down or dismiss. Gina Frangello tells the morally complex story of her adulterous relationship with a lover and her shortcomings as a mother, and in doing so, highlights the forces that shaped, silenced, and shamed her: everyday misogyny, puritanical expectations regarding female sexuality and maternal sacrifice, and male oppression." —Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game

Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while continuing to project the image of the perfect family. When her secrets are finally uncovered, both her home and her identity will implode, testing the limits of desire, responsibility, love, and forgiveness.

Blow Your House Down is a powerful testimony about the ways our culture seeks to cage women in traditional narratives of self-sacrifice and erasure. Frangello uses her personal story to examine the place of women in contemporary society: the violence they experience, the rage they suppress, the ways their bodies often reveal what they cannot say aloud, and finally, what it means to transgress "being good" in order to reclaim your own life.

Faq's on Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)

The price of "Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)" at Oiltown Comics is USD $27.00.

The publisher of "Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)" is Catapult.

The genres of "Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)" are Biography & Autobiography - Women, Family & Relationships - Divorce & Separation, and Social Science - Women's Studies.

"Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).

The writer of "Blow Your House Down (Hardcover Book)" is Gina Frangello.