"An eulogy to the myth of childhood innocence, and a prayer for every person who has justifiably feared a dark alley, an empty parking garage, an unattended drink, a first-floor bedroom window, a man you don't know or a man that you do. For everyone who has felt the percussion of their own blood pumping, alone in the dark. How equally terrifying and comforting to know we are not actually ever alone."
Publisher Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Publication Date 2019-08-20
Section New Titles - Paperback / Poetry / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Kaleigh O.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781984801906
i’m a good girl, bad girl, sad girl, dream girl
girl next door sunbathing in the driveway
i wanna be them all at once, i wanna be
all the girls I’ve ever loved
—From Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood
Lauded for the power of her writing and having attracted an online fan base of millions for her extraordinary spoken-word performances, Olivia Gatwood is a thrilling new feminist voice.
In Life of the Party, Gatwood weaves together her own coming of age with an investigation into our culture’s romanticization of violence against women. Her precise, searing language—at times blistering and rioutous, at times soulful and exuberant—explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. Gatwood asks, How does one grow from a girl to a woman in a world wracked by violence? Where is the line between perpetrator and victim?
