RavePopSugarThese are the kind of familiar scenes so many of us try to forget, or at least avoid talking about with each other, for a lifetime. And Febos has a calibrated attention for the texture of those experiences, their particular flavor of shame and mild (or not) horror ... Febos\'s book forces us to linger in the nuances of sexuality, gender, consent, and eroticism. Her essays dive deep into all those gray waters of being a girl and then a woman: how self-loathing and self-love can crash against each other, creating a certain kind of dissonance that can take a lifetime to escape, if we ever do. If there is a way out, it might be through books like this one that give us a shared language for all the murky things we as women feel — but too rarely speak.
