Maidenhead, Tamara Faith Berger
Maidenhead, Tamara Faith Berger
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Maidenhead

Author: Tamara Faith Berger

Narrator: Felicity Munroe

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/17/2014


Synopsis

Winner of the The Believer Book Award (2012) Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013) 'Maidenhead is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild, and Michel Foucault. It's a thrilling, brilliant, and really hot place to be.' -- Sheila Heti, Globe and Mail On a mangy beach in Key West, sixteen-year-old Myra meets Elijah, a Tanzanian musician twice her age. Trapped on a Spring Break family vacation, Myra longs to lose her virginity to Elijah, and is shocked to learn he lives with Gayl, a secretive, violent woman with a strange power over him. When Myra and her splitting-up family return home, she falls in with a pot-smoking anarchist crowd. But when Gayl and Elijah follow her north, she walks willingly into their world, engaging in more and more abject sexual games. As Myra enters unfamiliar worlds of sex, porn, race and class, she explores territories unknown in herself. Maidenhead traverses the desperate, wild spaces of a teenage girl' s self-consciousness.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sasha on November 30, 2015

This has been on my list ever since Jezebel suggested it to those who want to "start a brawl at your book club." And I get it now! This one guy pees on a lady! I bet book clubs went batshit! But it's about Hegel as much as it's about vaginas, which weirdly makes this my second book in two weeks to di......more

Goodreads review by Kiley on January 08, 2013

I read Maidenhead a week and a half ago and still haven't stopped thinking about it. It's a provocative book destined to have many haters; it is the antithesis of all that feminism stands for because of the female protagonist's masochistic exploits and the upsetting violence she willingly submits to......more

Goodreads review by Chantale on January 06, 2013

On vacation in Key West with her family 16 year-old Myra undergoes a sexual awakening which starts with a brief encounter with an older Tanzinian man who tries to masturbate with her. Upon returning home Myra's parents marriage dissolves and her Mom moves to Korea to teach English. Myra starts to ex......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 10, 2012

I hated my mother and my father. I was bored with Jen. I wanted to watch porn. I’d found this website for free, it was a service or something that delivered these video clips to your inbox. They were a minute, sometimes more, of these girls getting fucked, like what I saw in Key West but even more e......more

Goodreads review by Becky on August 16, 2012

I really love Tamara Faith Berger's work. When I read her first book "Lie with Me" more than ten years ago, I remember feeling grateful. It proved to me that it was okay to write about anything I wanted, be it sexual, deviant, dark or just plain odd. Maidenhead is intelligent quirky smut at it's bes......more