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A memoir of growing up in the shadow of a literary father and neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and the later-life consequences that ensue.
In 1982, Erika Schickel was kicked out of the highly prestigious Buxton boarding school in the Berkshires for sleeping with a teacher. She was that girl -- the pretty, precocious girl who got seduced, caught, and dumped by her school and her teacher. But Erika's provocative, searing and often funny memoir, The Big Hurt, asks the question, what really happens to that girl in the aftermath?
In many ways, Erika's seduction was inevitable. She came of age in the 1970s, the angsty progeny of two writers: Richard Schickel, the prominent film critic for Time magazine and Julia Wheden, a romantic, disappointed mid-list novelist. Her parents got their zeitgeist ''no-fault'' divorce in 1976 and went on their separate adventures of self-actualization, dumping Erika, a young Jodie Foster lookalike, in a bohemian boarding school, and leaving her to navigate the world more or less alone.
Whatever happens to these girls? These private school Lolitas? For Erika, the disgrace of her expulsion led to decades of self-loathing, an insatiable desire for an all-consuming love, and an overwhelming feeling of guilt for always being the ''bad girl.'' It took a shrewd investigation by the Boston Globe ''Spotlight'' team and a highly public but disastrous affair with a notorious L.A.-crime novelist which blew-up her marriage and almost destroyed her family, for Erika to see she was part of a legacy of female pain and neglect that preceded her.
The Big Hurt is the story of the Manhattan haute culture class that made girls grow up too fast, the long shadow of great monstrously self-absorbed literary lives, and a legacy of benign neglect and sexual abuse that was so rampant in the 70s and 80s. It is the story of all the girls with unbridled passion, precocious sexuality, and undirected creativity who, pre-loaded with adult references, were spun out, ignored, into a misogynistic world that wasn't ready for them.
The Big Hurt also looks at the ways in which women pin themselves like beautiful butterflies to the cork board of male ego. It is also the quintessential story of a middle-aged ''bad girl'' finding her true, creative voice, and repairing the legacy of ''hurt'' in her family tree so that her own daughters might grow up free of it.


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''I was transported and consumed by Schickel's hypnotic unspooling of her troubled, sexed-up adolescence and the way the legacy of that time followed her like a black dog into midlife. Beautifully written, intensely relatable, and fueled by incendiary fury and love.'' --
Claire Dederer, author of Love and Trouble

''Takes the vagaries and vicissitudes of the human heart and elevates them to the level of social, even political, inquiry. Erika Schickel is not just an interrogator of her own psyche but an interpreter of the times -- the current era as well as the decades that led us here.'' --
Meghan Daum, author of The Problem with Everything


About the Author


Erika Schickel is the author of You're Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, Bust magazine, Salon, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and more.

Informacija

Autorius: Erika Schickel
Leidėjas: Hachette Book Group and Blackstone Publishing
Išleidimo metai: 2021
Knygos puslapių skaičius: 1
ISBN-13: 9781549167263
Formatas: 5.8 x 1 x 5.6 inches.
Kalba: Anglų

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