num_pages: 172
description: Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now in a darkly funny and bracing memoir Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. Sex Object explores the painful funny embarrassing and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valentis adolescence and young adulthood in New York City revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation. In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valentis work and enthrall those who are just finding it.
language: English
title: Sex Object: A Memoir
publisher: Dey Street Books