{"product_id":"9780306925054","title":"The Big Hurt","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis complex memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and all of the later-life consequences that ensue.\u003c\/b\u003e In 1982, Erika Schickel was expelled from her East Coast prep school for sleeping with a teacher. She was \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c\/i\u003e girl--rebellious, precocious, and macking for love. Seduced, caught, and then whisked away in the night to avoid scandal, Schickel's provocative, searing, and darkly funny memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Hurt\u003c\/i\u003e, explores the question, \u003ci\u003eHow did that girl turn out?\u003c\/i\u003e Schickel came of age in the 1970s, the progeny of two writers: Richard Schickel, the prominent film critic for \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and Julia Whedon, a melancholy mid-list novelist. In the wake of her parents' ugly divorce, Erika was packed off to a bohemian boarding school in the Berkshires. \u003ci\u003eThe Big Hurt\u003c\/i\u003e tells two coming-of-age stories: one of a lost girl in a predatory world, and the other of that girl grown up, who in reckoning with her past ends up recreating it with a notorious LA crime novelist, blowing up her marriage and casting herself into the second exile of her life. \u003ci\u003eThe Big Hurt \u003c\/i\u003elooks at a legacy of shame handed down through a maternal bloodline and the cost of epigenetic trauma. It shines a light on the \u003ci\u003ehaute\u003c\/i\u003e culture of 1970s Manhattan that made girls grow up too fast. It looks at the long shadow cast by great, monstrously self-absorbed literary lives and the ways in which women pin themselves like beautiful butterflies to the spreading board of male ego.","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59617484800332,"sku":"9780306925054","price":18.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/4163\/2076\/files\/9780306925054-93c820f9eb0df334_front.webp?v=1793249737","url":"https:\/\/foxandfable.com\/products\/9780306925054","provider":"Fox \u0026 Fable","version":"1.0","type":"link"}