- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781405989169
- Price: £14.00
Jia Tolentino, author of TRICK MIRRORA uniquely thrilling writer . . . The Tantrum, animated by good humor and ungovernability, is so daring: Garnett shows herself as breakable where the world wants strength, fearless when the reader feels danger. There is simply no one doing personal writing on her level right now
Rachel Aviv, author of STRANGERS TO OURSELVES and YOU WON'T GET FREE OF ITThe Tantrum is an elegant, funny, totally original story of self-transformation, deepened by the fact that Garnett’s coming-of-age runs alongside that of her identical twin. Few writers are more astute about the way we go looking for ourselves in other people’s bodies and minds
Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNINGThe Tantrum introduces a formidable intellect. Jean Garnett's essays create a region of honest and audacious inquiry composed of what is hilarious, what is painful, and above all, what is nearly unbearable
Meghan O'Rourke, author of THE INVISIBLE KINGDOMThe Tantrum turns its blazing attention on the most intimate precincts of a life—marriage and motherhood, twinhood and friendship, ambition, desire, grief. Jean Garnett is a born essayist: for her, language is an instrument for mulling and shaping, for thinking and rethinking; the results are fierce, funny, and relentlessly self-implicating, the voice on the page always good company. I couldn't put it down
Melissa Febos, author of GIRLHOOD and THE DRY SEASONA beautiful and forensic analysis of intimacy through a range of great loves that brims with wisdom, sorrow, and humor
About Jean Garnett
Jean Garnett has published essays in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, The Yale Review and elsewhere. She is a winner of the Pushcart Prize.
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