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Dear Monica Lewinsky
From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid (āSublimeāāNYTBR) comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their appetites.
A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
āA wild, wonderful essential novel.ā āClaire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
āTruly funny.āāKevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here
Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escape the summer of 1998, when, as a college student studying abroad in France, she embarked on an inappropriate relationship with her professor. Now, decades later, when that professor contacts her out of the blue with an invitation to his retirement ceremony, Jeanās long-standing malaise becomes an emotional crisis. Desperate to understand why this relationship derailed her life so completely, she begins rereading her old diaries and is shocked to realize that her own disastrous affair occurred during the summer of the Lewinsky scandal, yet she never saw the parallels.
In a frenzy of guilt and regret, Jean finds herself praying to Monica Lewinsky for forgiveness as if she were a secular saint, a figure of both suffering and sympathy. To Jeanās shock, Saint Monica appearsāpowerful, radiant, wise, and wittyāand guides Jean like the Ghost of Christmas Past back to the summer of 1998. Had Jean merely been naive and stupid, as she has told herself for so long? Was it sheer weakness that led her into the affair? Or will Jean, with Saint Monica by her side, see past blame to the beauty of her younger selfās search for pleasure, connection, and transcendence?
Told in flashbacks of those sunlit six weeks in France, replete with Saint Monicaās flinty, fiery insights and interspersed with retellings of the lives of real historical martyrs, Dear Monica Lewinsky is a tender, hilarious, and wholly original examination of desire and its costs, of appetite and its denial, and of certain defeat and surprise renewal. It asks what grace and forgiveness might look like both in our own individual lives and as a society.
A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
āA wild, wonderful essential novel.ā āClaire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
āTruly funny.āāKevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here
Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escape the summer of 1998, when, as a college student studying abroad in France, she embarked on an inappropriate relationship with her professor. Now, decades later, when that professor contacts her out of the blue with an invitation to his retirement ceremony, Jeanās long-standing malaise becomes an emotional crisis. Desperate to understand why this relationship derailed her life so completely, she begins rereading her old diaries and is shocked to realize that her own disastrous affair occurred during the summer of the Lewinsky scandal, yet she never saw the parallels.
In a frenzy of guilt and regret, Jean finds herself praying to Monica Lewinsky for forgiveness as if she were a secular saint, a figure of both suffering and sympathy. To Jeanās shock, Saint Monica appearsāpowerful, radiant, wise, and wittyāand guides Jean like the Ghost of Christmas Past back to the summer of 1998. Had Jean merely been naive and stupid, as she has told herself for so long? Was it sheer weakness that led her into the affair? Or will Jean, with Saint Monica by her side, see past blame to the beauty of her younger selfās search for pleasure, connection, and transcendence?
Told in flashbacks of those sunlit six weeks in France, replete with Saint Monicaās flinty, fiery insights and interspersed with retellings of the lives of real historical martyrs, Dear Monica Lewinsky is a tender, hilarious, and wholly original examination of desire and its costs, of appetite and its denial, and of certain defeat and surprise renewal. It asks what grace and forgiveness might look like both in our own individual lives and as a society.
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Dear Monica Lewinsky
Dear Monica Lewinsky
From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid (āSublimeāāNYTBR) comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their appetites.
A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
āA wild, wonderful essential novel.ā āClaire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
āTruly funny.āāKevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here
Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escape the summer of 1998, when, as a college student studying abroad in France, she embarked on an inappropriate relationship with her professor. Now, decades later, when that professor contacts her out of the blue with an invitation to his retirement ceremony, Jeanās long-standing malaise becomes an emotional crisis. Desperate to understand why this relationship derailed her life so completely, she begins rereading her old diaries and is shocked to realize that her own disastrous affair occurred during the summer of the Lewinsky scandal, yet she never saw the parallels.
In a frenzy of guilt and regret, Jean finds herself praying to Monica Lewinsky for forgiveness as if she were a secular saint, a figure of both suffering and sympathy. To Jeanās shock, Saint Monica appearsāpowerful, radiant, wise, and wittyāand guides Jean like the Ghost of Christmas Past back to the summer of 1998. Had Jean merely been naive and stupid, as she has told herself for so long? Was it sheer weakness that led her into the affair? Or will Jean, with Saint Monica by her side, see past blame to the beauty of her younger selfās search for pleasure, connection, and transcendence?
Told in flashbacks of those sunlit six weeks in France, replete with Saint Monicaās flinty, fiery insights and interspersed with retellings of the lives of real historical martyrs, Dear Monica Lewinsky is a tender, hilarious, and wholly original examination of desire and its costs, of appetite and its denial, and of certain defeat and surprise renewal. It asks what grace and forgiveness might look like both in our own individual lives and as a society.
A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
āA wild, wonderful essential novel.ā āClaire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
āTruly funny.āāKevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here
Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escape the summer of 1998, when, as a college student studying abroad in France, she embarked on an inappropriate relationship with her professor. Now, decades later, when that professor contacts her out of the blue with an invitation to his retirement ceremony, Jeanās long-standing malaise becomes an emotional crisis. Desperate to understand why this relationship derailed her life so completely, she begins rereading her old diaries and is shocked to realize that her own disastrous affair occurred during the summer of the Lewinsky scandal, yet she never saw the parallels.
In a frenzy of guilt and regret, Jean finds herself praying to Monica Lewinsky for forgiveness as if she were a secular saint, a figure of both suffering and sympathy. To Jeanās shock, Saint Monica appearsāpowerful, radiant, wise, and wittyāand guides Jean like the Ghost of Christmas Past back to the summer of 1998. Had Jean merely been naive and stupid, as she has told herself for so long? Was it sheer weakness that led her into the affair? Or will Jean, with Saint Monica by her side, see past blame to the beauty of her younger selfās search for pleasure, connection, and transcendence?
Told in flashbacks of those sunlit six weeks in France, replete with Saint Monicaās flinty, fiery insights and interspersed with retellings of the lives of real historical martyrs, Dear Monica Lewinsky is a tender, hilarious, and wholly original examination of desire and its costs, of appetite and its denial, and of certain defeat and surprise renewal. It asks what grace and forgiveness might look like both in our own individual lives and as a society.
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From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid (āSublimeāāNYTBR) comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their appetites.
A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
āA wild, wonderful essential novel.ā āClaire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
āTruly funny.āāKevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here
Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escape the summer of 1998, when, as a college student studying abroad in France, she embarked on an inappropriate relationship with her professor. Now, decades later, when that professor contacts her out of the blue with an invitation to his retirement ceremony, Jeanās long-standing malaise becomes an emotional crisis. Desperate to understand why this relationship derailed her life so completely, she begins rereading her old diaries and is shocked to realize that her own disastrous affair occurred during the summer of the Lewinsky scandal, yet she never saw the parallels.
In a frenzy of guilt and regret, Jean finds herself praying to Monica Lewinsky for forgiveness as if she were a secular saint, a figure of both suffering and sympathy. To Jeanās shock, Saint Monica appearsāpowerful, radiant, wise, and wittyāand guides Jean like the Ghost of Christmas Past back to the summer of 1998. Had Jean merely been naive and stupid, as she has told herself for so long? Was it sheer weakness that led her into the affair? Or will Jean, with Saint Monica by her side, see past blame to the beauty of her younger selfās search for pleasure, connection, and transcendence?
Told in flashbacks of those sunlit six weeks in France, replete with Saint Monicaās flinty, fiery insights and interspersed with retellings of the lives of real historical martyrs, Dear Monica Lewinsky is a tender, hilarious, and wholly original examination of desire and its costs, of appetite and its denial, and of certain defeat and surprise renewal. It asks what grace and forgiveness might look like both in our own individual lives and as a society.
A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
āA wild, wonderful essential novel.ā āClaire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
āTruly funny.āāKevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here
Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escape the summer of 1998, when, as a college student studying abroad in France, she embarked on an inappropriate relationship with her professor. Now, decades later, when that professor contacts her out of the blue with an invitation to his retirement ceremony, Jeanās long-standing malaise becomes an emotional crisis. Desperate to understand why this relationship derailed her life so completely, she begins rereading her old diaries and is shocked to realize that her own disastrous affair occurred during the summer of the Lewinsky scandal, yet she never saw the parallels.
In a frenzy of guilt and regret, Jean finds herself praying to Monica Lewinsky for forgiveness as if she were a secular saint, a figure of both suffering and sympathy. To Jeanās shock, Saint Monica appearsāpowerful, radiant, wise, and wittyāand guides Jean like the Ghost of Christmas Past back to the summer of 1998. Had Jean merely been naive and stupid, as she has told herself for so long? Was it sheer weakness that led her into the affair? Or will Jean, with Saint Monica by her side, see past blame to the beauty of her younger selfās search for pleasure, connection, and transcendence?
Told in flashbacks of those sunlit six weeks in France, replete with Saint Monicaās flinty, fiery insights and interspersed with retellings of the lives of real historical martyrs, Dear Monica Lewinsky is a tender, hilarious, and wholly original examination of desire and its costs, of appetite and its denial, and of certain defeat and surprise renewal. It asks what grace and forgiveness might look like both in our own individual lives and as a society.
