Praise for
Disgust: A Memoir

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  • "Grant's juxtapositions of disgust and love—taut poles of tension reminiscent of poetry—through these various threads demonstrate the power of hybridity and the connective tissue that develops through brief bursts of prose." - Chet’la Sebree, Field Study

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    “Starkly beautiful and infinitely true. Disgust is a deep and brilliant gaze into all it truly means to feel, to be human, to love.” – Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

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    Disgust is a one-two punch of intimacy and insight; in a series of sharp aperçus, Grant goes unflinchingly towards what we can’t stand about ourselves and each other. Her sagacity will astonish you: this is a masterly display of the artistry of beautiful thinking –– you will see disgust, and yourself, anew. Hanna Pylväinen, We Sinners

  • Breakfast in Fur, Surrealist sculpture

    “Stephanie Grant’s Disgust is a brilliant shape-shifter of a book. It is a prose poem and a narrative, a philosophical inquiry and a political jeremiad, which makes it at once a twenty-first century masterwork on human frailty. Utterly fresh and luminous.” –Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises

  • May Wilson Ridiculous Portrait

    “Throughout the memoir, the very memorable intersects with the revolting-revulsion as departure, revolt–and yet Grant shows us even lovingly and with cheerful curiosity that what triggers one's disgust is often associated with one's own fears and wounds, one's own histories genetic and personal." -David Keplinger, author of “The World to Come”

  • Linda Villarosa, Instagram: Psyched to read this book by Stephanie Grant!

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    “A lyrical and searching examination of our most human selves.” — Richard Sha, author of “Imagination and Science in Romanticism"

Review by Chet’la Sebree (Field Study) in West Branch Magazine

For Instructors & Book Groups

Disgust: A Memoir is ideal for probing conversations about “difficult” emotions, the complexities of love & sex, or techniques of creative nonfiction. Stephanie may be able to join your conversation about Disgust via Zoom. Write to her using the email form on the contact page, giving the date, time, and the nature of the event.