Abandon Me
Melissa Febos
In her dazzling ABANDON ME, Melissa Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family, lovers and oneself. First, her birth father, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming, long-distance love affair with a woman, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral, erotic prose, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession — and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.
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| ISBN | 9781632866578 |
| Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
| Publication Date | 28-Feb-17 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury USA |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 320 |
| Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Lesbian Memoir/Biography |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Good |
| BookID | 102 |