by Maggie Nelson
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American political consultant
“To honour #IWD2021, let me tell you about some books written by women that I read since the last IWD & that I loved: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman The Argonauts Maggie Nelson Motherwell: A Memoir Deborah Orr The Mermaid of Black Conch @moniqueroffey”
Source →“To honour #IWD2021, let me tell you about some books written by women that I read since the last IWD & that I loved: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman The Argonauts Maggie Nelson Motherwell: A Memoir Deborah Orr The Mermaid of Black Conch @moniqueroffey”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Emma Watson and Anya Taylor-Joy
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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the a...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in LGBTQ, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
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Audrey Gelman
American political consultant
“To honour #IWD2021, let me tell you about some books written by women that I read since the last IWD & that I loved: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman The Argonauts Maggie Nelson Motherwell: A Memoir Deborah Orr The Mermaid of Black Conch @moniqueroffey”
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