My Good Bright Wolf - A Memoir

My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir about thinking and reading, eating and not eating, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form us and the long tentacles of childhood. Sarah confronts all of this in a book that pushes at the boundaries of memoir-writing. Opening in the second person, it narrates contested memories of girlhood at the hands of embattled, distracted parents in a time of disastrous attitudes towards eating and female discipline. By the time she was a teenager, Sarah had developed a dangerous and controlling relationship with food, and that illness returned in her adult life. Now the mother and teacher of young adults, in My Good Bright Wolf she explores a childhood caught in the trap of her parents'' post-war puritanism and second-wave feminism, interrogating what she thought and still thinks, what she read and still reads, and what she did - and still does - with her hard-working body and her furiously turning mind. My Good Bright Wolf is a stunning work of boldness and courage. Beautiful, audacious, moving and so very funny, Sarah Moss''s memoir is a remarkable exercise in the way a brain turns on itself, and then offers a way out: it is a blindingly brilliant experiment in and celebration of what a creative mind can do.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Moss, Moss Sarah
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9781035035816
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503581-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, MEDICAL / Mental Health, SELF-HELP / Eating Disorders & Body Image, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Teenagers, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / School Age, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Adolescence, Eating disorders & therapy, Family & relationships, Literature: history & criticism, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Literature: history and criticism, Coping With Eating Disorders, Coping with / advice about eating disorders