Sarah Chihaya: Bibliophobia
Bibliophobia
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- A Memoir
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- Random House Children's Books, 02/2025
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780593594728
- Umfang: 224 Seiten
- Gewicht: 567 g
- Erscheinungstermin: 4.2.2025
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“A must for the obsessive reader.”—Elif Batuman, author of Either / Or and The IdiotA “soul-baring, witty, and slyly provocative” (Whiting Foundation) memoir about reading, writing, and depression
Books can seduce you. They can annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books, Sarah Chihaya thinks, has had this kind of unsettling literary encounter. She calls books that have this effect “Life Ruiners.”
Chihaya’s Life Ruiner, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, became a talisman for her in high school, and its electrifying treatment of race exposed her deepest feelings about being Japanese American in a predominantly white suburb of Cleveland. Transformed, Chihaya knew she’d build her life around books, searching for another Life Ruiner that could show her how to live. But a lifelong struggle with depression thwarted the resolution to every plot, and when she was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown, the world became an unreadable blank page.
Alternately searing and darkly humorous, Bibliophobia is a story of breakdown and survival told through books. Delving into Anne of Green Gables, Possession, A Tale for the Time Being, The Last Samurai, and many other texts, Chihaya interrogates her cultural identity, her relationship with depression, and the intoxicating, sometimes painful, ways books push back on those who love them.