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Wizenberg, Molly · 2020
A memoir by Molly Wizenberg exploring themes of sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and self-discovery with unflinching honesty. The narrative opens with the author serving on a jury where she experiences an unexpected attraction that prompts deeper reflection on identity and authenticity.
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What this book knows
Discovering you're queer mid-marriage doesn't announce itself; it arrives obliquely, through the body, and costs everyone something real.
desire
"Wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it."
FSM-RC-063She said, that's amazing, that you've always known yourself so well. She squeezed my ass. I smiled, pleased, and didn't correct her.
FSM-RC-075In the square for that Saturday, the day of my first date with Nora, I wrote only the word Nora.
FSM-RC-074shame
I could have filled swimming pools, municipal reservoirs, with shame. I feared her judgment because it was my own.
FSM-RC-069This was how I came out to my mother. I had the luxury of knowing I would be okay. But I didn't want to disappoint her.
FSM-RC-068self-and-identity
Are you allowed to grieve if you've caused the death? I had ended my marriage, but I had also ended a life I'd chosen.
FSM-RC-1036 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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