Body Work - The Radical Power of Personal Narrative Book

Body Work - The Radical Power of Personal Narrative Book

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RELEASE DATE - 15 MARCH 2022

In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller’s life and the challenges it presents.

How do we write about the relationships that have formed us? How do we describe our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean to have your writing, or living, dismissed as “navel-gazing”―or else hailed as “so brave, so raw”? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong?

Drawing on her journey from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor―via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia―Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence.

Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas―and occasional notes of caution―to anyone who has ever hoped to see their true self reflecting back from the open page. 

Author Melissa Febos identifies as bisexual. She lives in Iowa with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly.

One of Lit Hub's 'Most Anticipated Books of 2022

‘Melissa Febos has written one of the most liberating books on the subject of writing that I can think of. A tender, urgent intelligence, a wisdom that is hard-won, and a rigor born from a love for the craft preside. [...] I learned so much reading Body Work that I can’t wait to teach and use on the page.’
Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

‘Ferociously smart and piercingly insightful, Body Work is an instant classic of the how-and-why-do-we-write form. With candor and clarity, Melissa Febos explores the complexities of writing courageously and honestly about our lives. It’s a book I’ll return to again and again.’
Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild

Body Work is the most necessary book about memoir I’ve read. Daring, honest, psychologically insightful, and absolutely whip smart. A must read for anybody shoving a pen across paper or staring into a screen or a past.’
Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of Memoir

'This is a wonder.'
Publishers Weekly

'Sharp insights from a passionate practitioner and champion of memoir.'
Kirkus Reviews

'Wide-ranging in its theoretical and historical breadth yet intimate in all ways, Febos's book offers the tools readers need to identify, access, process, and articulate hard-won stories of trauma and of love that their flesh holds.'
Library Journal


Author Melissa Febos
Format Paperback
Pages 279
ISBN 9781526165848

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