num_pages: 160
description: In That Thing You Do With Your Mouth actress and voice-over artist Samantha Matthews offersin the form of an extended monologue prompted and arranged by New York Times bestselling author (and Matthewss cousin once removed) David Shieldsa vivid investigation of her startling sexual history. From her abuse at the hands of a family member to her present-day life in Barcelona where she briefly moonlighted as a dubber of Italian pornography into English Matthews reveals herself to be a darkly funny deeply contemporary woman with a keen awareness of how her body has been routinely hijacked and how she has been formatted by her early trauma. Her story is a study of her uneasy relationships with female desire her tormentors and her loverswith whom she seeks out both the infliction and receipt of harm. This book is an attempt sometimes self-thwarted to break down barriers: sexual and emotional for Matthews literary for Shields.For them the only response to the unspeakable is to speak to do that thing you do with your mouth as directly and honestly as possible. Their provocative performance refuses neat resolution or emotional pornography; it will have readers from literary critics to Jezebel commentators raving raging celebrating talking.
language: English
title: That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields
publisher: McSweeney's