Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 272kb | 2019 edition
Overview: Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores chronic pain, sexual violence, and medical sexism through lived experience and pop culture.
First published in 2015, this 2019 edition includes an afterword by the author.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
“TENDER POINTS does precisely what people are always saying can’t be done—it combines a moving, distilled, literary journey with advocacy and even pedagogy, here about trauma, chronic pain, patriarchy, and more. Call it ‘ecriture feminine en homme,’ if you want (as Berkowitz does, with acid wit)—but whatever you call it, this is firm, high-stakes speech speaking truth to power, radiating beauty and fierceness from its inspiring insistence and persistence.” —Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts
“TENDER POINTS … is a kind of personal detective story about trauma and the body that interrogates chronic pain literature and ’90s cartoons, noise music and Anne Carson, medical listserv comment boards and video art. It’s urgent, haunting, meticulously crafted, darkly comic, and it has the strangest, smartest structure of anything I’ve read this year. Truly unclassifiable." —Brian Gittis, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux
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