Tamara Faith Berger
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Maidenhead
Berger's first two novels garnered a fair bit of controversy in their explicit depictions of sex (and in the case of Lie with Me , the design's resemblance to a children's book). Maidenhead will be no exception, particularly as this piece of literary smut concerns a sixteen-year-old.Our promotional ephemera for this book will be Maidenhead-brand condoms.Berger has said this novel will mark the end of her investigation into pornography and innocent girls, and is the final act in her 'pornographic trilogy.' This could serve as a useful publicity hook, with Berger explaining why she’s leaving pornography behind, why she feels she's done with the genre.Participation in galley box program.
Queen Solomon
It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator — until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator's well-intentioned father has brought her, as a teen, to their home for the summer. But Barbra isn't the docile and grateful orphan they expect, and soon our narrator, terrified of her and drawn to her in equal measure, finds himself immersed in compulsive psychosexual games with her, as she binge-drinks and lies to his family. Things go terribly wrong, and Barbra flees. But seven years later, as our narrator is getting his life back on track, with a new girlfriend and a master's degree in Holocaust Studies underway, Barbra shows up at our narrator's house once again, her «spiritual teacher» in tow, and our narrator finds his politics, and his sanity, back in question.<br>
<i>Queen Solomon</i> is another masterful take on the politics of sex, race, and power from the author of the Believer Book Award–winning <i>Maidenhead.</i>
Little Cat
Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex. Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie With Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness. In The Way of the Whore, Mira, an introverted Jewish girl obsessed with Jean Genet, allows herself to be seduced by the sex industry, determined to find meaning in her tormented relationships with cruel men. Tamara Faith Berger's first two novels have been languishing out of print. They were scandalous when they were first published; substantially revised and returned to print, they're just as titillating and troubling now. "Treading a line between sublime experimentation and unsettling honesty, Little Cat rides a wave of female sexual energy. . . . 'Please, I want you to stay with me till it's over,' the narrator of 'Lie With Me' begs. With writing this good, it's hard not to.' – Quill & Quire Praise for Tamara Faith Berger's Maidenhead (winner of the 2012 Believer Book Award): "Myra's confusion, her passion, her need for possession and to be possessed, make this novel an incredible read, finding its place, as Sheila Heti (who should know) wrote, 'somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild and Michel Foucault.'" – Flavorwire "There are no easy moments, no comfort to be found in the searing prose. . . . When writers get young female sexuality right, stories become a revelation and such is the case with Maidenhead. The writing pulls the reader desperately close." – Roxane Gay, The RumpusTamara Faith Berger is the author of three novels, including Maidenhead. Lie With Me has been made into a film.