Summary of Melissa Febos's Body Work

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I have heard this concern from countless students and peers: stories about body and sex and gender and violence and joy and childhood and family are considered navel-gazing. But I insist that we should always be telling stories so that their specificity reveals some larger truth. #2 I did not want to write a memoir because I thought that strangers would not be interested in my story. But my own story wouldn’t