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Having spent several years working in behavioral health for sexual offenders, I am always compelled to pick up works that have the courage to tackle such polarizing and sensitive, but prevalent topics such as pedophilia and childhood sexual abuse. I often try to tell myself that I have seen and heard it all when it comes to accounts of trauma and abuse but unfortunately, more often than not, I am very wrong.
Tiger, Tiger is a deeply upsetting memoir that demonstrates how sexually deviant individuals are not always simply the big scary boogeyman monsters we want to believe they are, but rather normal everyday people who are just as every bit human as the rest of us. Fragoso does an incredible job at expressing the complex feelings that many survivors struggle to confront both during and after their abuse, specifically the confusion and anger that comes with recognizing that what they once believed to be a normal, loving relationship was in reality a product of grooming and manipulation.
This is an extremely difficult memoir that forces readers to confront the reality of what child sexual abuse can and does look like outside of the horror stories we hear via true crime, the news, movies, and the internet. This is not a memoir that should be picked up by those who are currently struggling with unresolved trauma. This is not a memoir that should be picked up and read for shock value or morbid curiosity.
That being said, this was an easy 6 star memoir that I never want to read again. RIP Margaux Fragoso.
Tiger, Tiger is a deeply upsetting memoir that demonstrates how sexually deviant individuals are not always simply the big scary boogeyman monsters we want to believe they are, but rather normal everyday people who are just as every bit human as the rest of us. Fragoso does an incredible job at expressing the complex feelings that many survivors struggle to confront both during and after their abuse, specifically the confusion and anger that comes with recognizing that what they once believed to be a normal, loving relationship was in reality a product of grooming and manipulation.
This is an extremely difficult memoir that forces readers to confront the reality of what child sexual abuse can and does look like outside of the horror stories we hear via true crime, the news, movies, and the internet. This is not a memoir that should be picked up by those who are currently struggling with unresolved trauma. This is not a memoir that should be picked up and read for shock value or morbid curiosity.
That being said, this was an easy 6 star memoir that I never want to read again. RIP Margaux Fragoso.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting