Notes To Self: Essays
The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hideāfrom addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love.
WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR ā¢ āEmilie Pineās voice is razor-sharp and raw; her story is utterly original yet as familiar as my own breath.āāGlennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior
In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her lifeāthose emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes with radical honesty on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic parent, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. This is the story of one woman, and of all women.
Devastating, poignant, and wiseāand joyful against the oddsāNotes to Self is an unforgettable exploration of what it feels like to be alive, and a daring act of rebellion against a society that is more comfortable with womenās silence.
Praise for Notes to Self
āNotes to Self begins as a deceptively simple catalogue of the injustices of modern female life and slyly emerges as a screaming treatise on just what it means to make your own rules, turning the hand youāve been dealt into the coolest game in town. Emilie Pine is like your best friendāif your best friend was so sharp she drew blood.āāLena Dunham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl
āTo read these essays is to understand the human condition more clearly, to reassess oneās place in the world, and to reclaim oneās own experiences as real and valid.āāSunday Independent
āHarrowing, clear-eyed . . . Everyone should consider [this] priority reading.āāSunday Business Post
āIncredible and insightfulāan absolute must-read.āāThe Skinny
āAgonizing, uncompromising, starkly brilliant. . . . [A] short, gleamingly instructive book, both memoir and psychological explorationāa platform for that insistent internal voice that almost any woman . . . wishes they had ignored.āāFinancial Times
āDo not read this book in public. It will make you cry.āāAnne Enright