Shon Faye Love in Exile Hardback Book

The acclaimed Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller on our search for loveUncommonly wise and honest. Love in Exile flooded me with a sense of continuity and hope. A masterpiece, from start to finish Maggie NelsonShon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It was a fear that would erupt in destructive, counterfeit versions of the real love she craved addictions and shortlived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical, or excruciatingly painful and unhinged, often both. Fayes experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up visibly queer, exacerbated her fears. But, as she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture. Love, she argues, is as much a collective question as a personal one. Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new, engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. In this highly politicized terrain, boundaries are purposefully drawn to keep some in and to keep others out. Those who exist outside them are ignored, denigrated, exiled. In Love in Exile, Shon Faye shows love is much greater than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave so desperately that we are willing to... | Shon Faye Love in Exile Hardback Book