Sex Object: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

NPR Great Read of 2016

Writer and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the country wide conversation on gender and politics for more than a decade. Now, within a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.

Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner lifestyle than the about Sex Object: A Memoir confident persona she’s cultivated among the most recognizable feminists of her era.

In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already acquainted with Valenti’s function and enthrall those who are just locating it.

“Jessica Valenti is a breath of oxygen. She offers the kind of uncooked honesty that can feel just like a punch in the gut, but leaves you with the heat of the deep accept.” – Ms. Mag

“Perhaps one of the most visible and effective feminists of her generation.” – Washington Post

“A gutsy young third influx feminist.” – The NY Times