What a Shame: 'Intelligent, moving and darkly comic' The Sunday Times

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What a Shame: 'Intelligent, moving and darkly comic' The Sunday Times

What a Shame: 'Intelligent, moving and darkly comic' The Sunday Times

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Mark Wolynn has a very specific approach to treating trauma – particularly the trauma that has survived and transferred from generations. He offers a different perspective of looking at trauma that’s not necessarily the result of a painful life event or a chemical imbalance but instead passed through generations. It's, of course, a tough read, challenging, with very emotional passages (e.g. the horrific suicide of her sister following years of domestic abuse -a reminder that, women from India and the Middle-East are three times more likely to commit suicide than their White counterparts...) but absolutely necessary to fully understand the impact of forced marriages. She escaped such a fate, but how many didn't and still don't?

What a Shame fizzes with energy, rage and love, burrowing deep into those experiences that define us at our core. Bergstrom writes with wit and wisdom, and Mathilda's voice is ever-incisive, fresh and compelling. -- Jessica Moor Ironically, the habits we follow to reduce our shame, are induced by shame in the first place. The author, John Bradshaw, drank heavily to get away from his shame, yet the more he drank, the closer to shame he felt. What a Shame’ is a perfect balance of genuine heart and awkward humour. If you enjoyed ‘Fleabag’ and writers like Caitlin Moran and Dawn O’ Porter I think you’ll love this debut. For anyone who’s ever grappled with shame and self-worth or felt a little lost in life, allow What A Shameto hit you in the feels and bring you home to yourself (cue the book hangover). A 'shame' is indeed what she claimed having become, growing up in a Indo-Pakistani community of Derby, rejected by her family when she was barely 16. Why? Simply because, and unlike her sisters, instead of accepting an arranged marriage by her parents according to strict Sikhs traditions she preferred to run away with her then boyfriend (an 'untouchable'), despite attempts to keep her sequestrated.She’s cried all her tears, mastered her crow pose and thrown out every last reminder of him. But that’s not helping. This book provides a fascinating insight into the human ability to survive in the harshest of conditions, making sense of tough situations and finding our purpose in life. It's LOL, ever-so-relatable and will also have you weeping into a snotty tissue. Love, love, love * Cosmopolitan * In Forbidden Colours, a beautiful young man is seduced and tempted by a bitter old artist to become the epitome of the arrogant and emotionally distant male. The older man will use him to exact revenge on the women he believes have blighted his life. Reading Mishima’s novel is deeply unsettling. It is boldly erotic, yet fiercely conservative in its notions of family and duty. It is also the most trenchant and honest dissection of the shame of sexism by a male writer that I have ever read. Dazzling . . . By turns funny, sharp, raw and overwhelming, this is o ne of those novels where you think you are exploring someone else's pain, only to realise you are actually exploring your own -- Read of the Week * Heat *

Contributors include Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison A book that simultaneously punches you in the gut and makes you snort with laughter. It's beautifully raw in its delivery. A glorious new talent has arrived -- Emma Gannon Shame keeps us from truly connecting with others and ourselves. However being aware of it and recognising its influence over us, reduces its power over us. We can then begin to accept ourselves unconditionally, opening the door to being true to ourselves. In this profoundly moving and intricately woven novel, the narrator encounters Shino, a young waitress at a nearby restaurant near his university. One night, fueled by liquid courage, he musters the courage to approach her. She agrees to meet him again the following evening, but he hesitates to divulge the complexities of his life. Eventually, Shino learns of the heart-wrenching tragedies that have plagued his family—two siblings who took their own lives, two who vanished, and one who faces a handicap. The fear of tainted blood haunts him, and he grapples with his very existence.Abigail Bergstrom's assured debut is a forensic excavation of the female psyche - on friendship, grief, and the secrets we keep to survive. -- Laura Bailey She’s still reeling from the blow of a gut-punch break up and grieving the death of a loved one. But that’s not it.

What A Shame weaves eternal themes of grief and heartbreak against a modern canvas that is clear and recognisable. There's a piercing sense of what happens when your tragedy becomes your anecdote, and your anecdote becomes tiring to the people around you. Full of heart, wit and feeling, Bergstrom is a new voice but sure to be an enduring one. -- Caroline O'Donoghue A wry and zeitgeisty look at grief, heartbreak and the fix-you industry, What a Shame asks whether we can ever expect closure from our worst and most secret pain and fear. A must-read for anyone who has ever felt defined by a break-up. -- Harriet Walker A young boy stopped growing after a sexual assault. This was the starting point of Dr. Harris ’s lifelong work on child trauma management linking the effects of toxic stress and chronic illness. Childhood adversity (neglect, abuse, parental shame, divorce) can quite literally change our biological makeup for life. First of all it pissed me off, the way her parents thought they were better than The English people, they considered white, low class (there words , not mine) but the whites were good enough to let them live there and care for them and this is what is wrong with Europe nowadays.Intelligent, moving and darkly comic . . . taking us deftly from serious explorations of trauma to riotously funny scenes of modern life’ The Sunday Times Concerned that she isn't moving on, Mathilda's friends push her towards a series of increasingly unorthodox remedies. The idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been ‘laden with something dark’ was disconcertingly unanimous. Dazzling . . . one of those novels where you think you’re exploring someone else’s pain, only to realise you’re exploring your own’ I have gained so much from reading this book. I see myself more determined that I can achieve anything I put my mind to (by The Grace of God).



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