EXCITING NEWS: BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN IS OUT April 6!

Blow Your House Down is a powerful testimony about the ways our culture seeks to cage women in traditional narratives of self-sacrifice and erasure. Frangello uses her personal story to examine the place of women in contemporary society: the violence they experience, the rage they suppress, the ways their bodies often reveal what they cannot say aloud, and finally, what it means to transgress “being good” in order to save your own life.

“In this searing memoir…Frangello charts the spectacular highs and devastating lows of her midlife with extraordinary candor…This unapologetic account both moves and fascinates.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Searingly honest and compulsively readable…uncompromisingly fearless in its candor, this memoir/feminist manifesto isa powerful account of a woman’s self-acceptance that deserves a place among the best literary memoirs of the last decade. Frangello’s groundbreaking testimony sets itself apart.”–Library Journal, starred review

“My bet for breakout of the year. The Chicagoan’s memoir takes on gender expectations and marital affairs in such a brutal, lacerating candor wonder who should play her in the movie.” –ChicagoTribune, Most Anticipated Book of 2021

“Raw, red-hot memoir…In this gutsy, dramatic feminist manifesto, Frangello recounts the cost of eschewing security to choose the utter necessity of love, of being more tomorrow than she is today.” –Booklist

Find this captivating memoir on Chicago Review of Books’ Must-Read list for April! https://chireviewofbooks.com/2021/04/01/12-must-read-books-for-april/