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A review by prosewhore
Strangeland by Tracey Emin
5.0
TW/// I wouldn't recommend this if you are sensitive to mentions of sexual abuse, eating disorders and/or just abuse in general.
I was crying before I reached page 20. She had so much awareness of how terrible of a place the world can be and at such a young age. It broke my heart.
In this book, you will get the good and the ugly. The abortions, the eating disorder, the rapes but also recollections of love of every kind, turkish stories passed on by her father and a taste of her strength.
I know that she receives a lot of hate (as do many powerful, successful women). I love Tracey, her art of course that never fails to touch me but she also seems to be a wonderful person. An interesting, brilliant, fierce woman. Resilient. This book is just pieces of her life and of the knowledge she has acquired along the years, all jumbled together. Curated in a way that feels right but not orderly, with words that can only be hers, raw and honest as her work always is.
I was crying before I reached page 20. She had so much awareness of how terrible of a place the world can be and at such a young age. It broke my heart.
In this book, you will get the good and the ugly. The abortions, the eating disorder, the rapes but also recollections of love of every kind, turkish stories passed on by her father and a taste of her strength.
I know that she receives a lot of hate (as do many powerful, successful women). I love Tracey, her art of course that never fails to touch me but she also seems to be a wonderful person. An interesting, brilliant, fierce woman. Resilient. This book is just pieces of her life and of the knowledge she has acquired along the years, all jumbled together. Curated in a way that feels right but not orderly, with words that can only be hers, raw and honest as her work always is.