NPR Great Read of 2016

Writer and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the country wide conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism will take from the every day towards the existential.

Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and youthful adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner lifestyle than the about Sex Object: A Memoir confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her era.

In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir will surprise those already acquainted with Valenti’s function and enthrall those who find themselves just acquiring it.

“Jessica Valenti is a breathing of oxygen. She offers the kind of organic honesty that may feel like a punch in the gut, but leaves you with the heat of the deep accept.” – Ms. Journal

“Probably one of the most visible and effective feminists of her generation.” – Washington Post

“A gutsy young third influx feminist.” – The NY Times