Brutalities: A Love Story

Name: Brutalities: A Love Story
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Margo Steines
ISBN: 9781666647600

Author: Margo Steines

Narrator: Margo Steines

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 10/03/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, Women

Synopsis

Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building crew, and a Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast; each of her many lives brought a new vantage point from which to see how power and masculinity coalesce?and how her body paid the price. With unflinching candor, Steines searches for the roots of her erstwhile attraction to pain while charting the complicated triumph of tenderness and care.

About Margo Steines

Margo Steines holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona, where she teaches writing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times (Modern Love), The Sun, and elsewhere. A native New Yorker, she lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gabby on June 25, 2023

Extraordinary. These stories left me breathless. I found myself wincing and slack-jawed as much as I was moved to tears by the tenderness and vulnerability braided within even the most distressing moments in these pages. It’s impossible to read about some of Steines’s experiences and not flinch… but......more

Goodreads review by Megan on February 26, 2024

The author's life story told through her body's experiences, traumas, and victories. Beautifully written but repetitive. Could have done with out the animal abuse sections.......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on January 08, 2024

This is an exceptional memoir about this woman's different lived experiences around self-inflicted bodily harm (she was a teenage dominatrix, and a welder for high rise buildings, among other unique professions). The way this book is structured is totally ingenious-- if you yourself are working on a......more

Goodreads review by Yvette on July 04, 2023

it's hard to find the words to review. just so much love and admiration for this author for putting it all out there. i had to take my time reading because of the intensity but also because of how much i could relate to parts of her story and her relationship with herself and her body. the timeline......more

Goodreads review by Lindsey on January 04, 2024

Phewf I mean I guess it’s in the name of this book huh? Really stunning and really intense!!!!......more