Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
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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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Frangello, Gina
Published: 04/06/2021
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
ISBN: 9781640093164
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d
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Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Frangello, Gina
Published: 04/06/2021
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
ISBN: 9781640093164
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d