When a Woman Turns into a Wife
Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars” in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s revelation about her sexual abuse and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
Jenessa Abrams is a writer, literary translator, and practitioner of narrative medicine. Her fiction, literary criticism, and creative nonfiction have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Chicago Review of Books, BOMB, and elsewhere. She was recently named a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critic Fellow. Currently, she teaches writing in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University.
Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars” in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s revelation about her sexual abuse and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
Jenessa Abrams reviews Miranda July’s “All Fours.”