by Stephanie Grant
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“When, in my twenties, I came out to my parents as a lesbian, I became the object of their disgust. As a result, I worked to eliminate disgust from my repertoire of emotions.”
Novelist Stephanie Grant works to make sense of three generations of female self-disgust in her family while considering how it challenges both the American ideal of equality and our real-life experiences of intimacy. Funny, poignant, and rigorous, Disgust: A Memoir reveals how the most difficult emotion functions in both our private lives and collective imaginations.
Starkly beautiful and infinitely true. Disgust is a deep and brilliant gaze into all it truly means to feel, to be human, to love.
- Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
In this condensed, profound contemplation of disgust, Stephanie Grant traces the complexity and fearfulness of intergenerational conflict and touches on the transmissibility (or not) of mental illness. Her meditations read like prose poems, each economically summoning another intricacy of her subject. She moves with unusual grace between the universal and the highly specific, revealing startling truths about love and fear and anger and pain and redemption.
- Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree, The Noonday Demon
“A lyrical and searching examination of our most human selves.”
- Richard C. Sha, Imagination and Science in Romanticism
“Brings together her skills as poet (the pieces are arranged as single paragraph prose pieces), as entangled story teller, and as objective reporter. It strikes me as an important, even groundbreaking, new work.”
- David Keplinger, The Long Answer: New and Selected Poems
Stephanie Grant’s first novel, The Passion of Alice, was published by Houghton Mifflin (1995), and was nominated for Britain’s Orange Prize for Women Writers and the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Her second novel, Map of Ireland, (Scribner 2008) is a contemporary retelling of Huck Finn that places female sexuality and friendship at the center of a foundational American myth about race. It was nominated for the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. Grant has received fellowships and awards by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council, among others. She currently directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University.
Trade Paperback $18.00 164 pages November 15, 2021 ISBN 978-1-7329328-5-2
