Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Memoir_Gift_Guide founder of the eminent Rochester

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Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Memoir_Gift_Guide founder of the eminent RochesterA searing portrait of a mothers bodya resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness Four months postpartum with her second child, Catherine Simone Gray is back at her doctors office, surveying a childbirth wound that refuses to mend. Proud flesh: tissue that overheals to become its own wound.