num_pages: 240
description: Award-winning author Laura Lindstedt makes her Anais Ninlike US debut with this mesmerizing tale of one womans potent affliction: Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. Narrated by her unnamed ungendered therapist who leaps at the chance to employ their most experimental methods My Friend Natalia offers a gripping examination of the power dynamics always present but rarely ever spoken about in therapy. Something flared within me the therapist notes. And it wasnt exclusively sympathy.?.?.?.?It was more like a sudden experience of harmony wholly inappropriate given the circumstances..By combining philosophy and literature repressed childhood memories and explicitly unrepressed erotic experiences their sessions quickly shed all inhibitions. As tension percolates the therapist cant shake the question: What does Natalia really want? In prose charged with sharp banter and double entendres My Friend Natalia takes a deconstructive approach to the self-help narratives of our times and announces Laura Lindstedt as a rare and unflinching literary talent.
language: English
title: My Friend Natalia
publisher: Liveright