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Author:
Erika Schickel
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Date:
August 10, 2021
The Big Hurt tells two coming-of-age stories: one of a lost girl in a predatory world, and the other of that girl grown up, who in reckoning with her past ends up recreating it with a notorious LA crime novelist, blowing up her marriage and casting herself into the second exile of her life.
What The Reviewers Say
Sharp-tongued and darkly hilarious, it is also one of the more relentlessly honest, big-hearted reckonings with abuse to come out of the #MeToo era.
Stirring if shaggy.
The memoir is well written, and the two intertwining stories are well-structured. However, the author is repetitive about certain elements...and sparse on others.
