{"product_id":"the-big-hurt-a-memoir-hardcover","title":"The Big Hurt: A Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErika Schickel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSchickel 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErika Schickel is \u003c\/b\u003ethe author of \u003ci\u003eYou're Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom\u003c\/i\u003e (2007). Her essays and criticism have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eBust Magazine, Salon, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune \u003c\/i\u003eand more. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768068276512,"sku":"9780306925054","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9caeec787832c6665485821021e7ea65.webp?v=1780323976","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-big-hurt-a-memoir-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}