"When, in my twenties, I came out to my parents as a lesbian, I became an object of their disgust. As a result, I worked to eliminate disgust from my repertoire of emotions." In this hybrid memoir, novelist Stephanie Grant works to make sense of three generations of female self-disgust in her family while considering how it challenges both the American ideal of equality and our real-life experiences of intimacy. A Memoir is funny, tender, and rigorous in its exploration of how the most difficult emotion functions both in our private lives and our collective imaginations.
Author
There is more than one Stephanie Grant on Goodreads Stephanie Grant’s first novel, The Passion of Alice, was published in 1995 by Houghton Mifflin, and was nominated for Britain’s Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Map of Ireland, which was published by Scribner in March 2008, is a contemporary retelling of Huck Finn that places female sexuality and friendship at the center of one of our foundational myths about race. Her writing has received numerous awards including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Formerly Writer-in-Residence at Mount Holyoke College, she is currently Visiting Writer at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. For the author of GCSE review guides, please refer to Stephanie Grant
