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Author
Language
English
Description
The Abstinence Teacher illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern American family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. It is elegantly and simply written, characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that has become Tom Perrotta's trademark.
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Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, a memoir from writer, speaker, sex educator, feminist pornographer, and activist Tristan Taormino, is a meditation on family, coming of age, identity, and activism. Raised by a single mother on Long Island, she got her sex education from the 1980s TV show Solid Gold, Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex, and summers in Provincetown with her father. Woven throughout the book are stories of her father Bill Taormino's family...