{"product_id":"the-big-hurt-erika-schickel-9780306925054","title":"The Big Hurt: A Memoir","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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erika Schickel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0306925052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306925054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hachette Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/13\/2021","brand":"Erika Schickel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44050253938943,"sku":"9780306925054","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c24dcad-1887-45c7-9414-043971890883.jpg?v=1685006144","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-big-hurt-erika-schickel-9780306925054","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}