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The Tantrum
  • Published: 29 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781405978804
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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The Tantrum

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After an experiment in non-monogamy upends her life, Jean Garnett gropes her way toward a new kind of existence in this intense, funny, utterly original account of a woman's breakdown

'A uniquely thrilling writer . . . The Tantrum, animated by good humor and ungovernability, is so daring: Garnett shows herself as breakable where the world wants strength, fearless when the reader feels danger. There is simply no one doing personal writing on her level right now' - Jia Tolentino, author of TRICK MIRROR

Dissecting her closest entanglements and her most frightening feelings, Garnett explores marriage, separation, sex, twin sisterhood, money, heartbreak, parenthood and the problem of what to do with the emotions that overwhelm us. An unflinching study of need, envy, infatuation, depression and the sudden and mystifying ways our identities can change, THE TANTRUM is about the relationships that define, destroy and sustain us, and about trying – perhaps unsuccessfully – to find oneself as a single being.

'The Tantrum is an elegant, funny, totally original story of self-transformation, deepened by the fact that Garnett’s coming-of-age runs alongside that of her identical twin. Few writers are more astute about the way we go looking for ourselves in other people’s bodies and minds' RACHEL AVIV, author of STRANGERS TO OURSELVES
  • Published: 29 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781405978804
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
Categories:

About the author

Jean Garnett

Jean Garnett has published essays in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, The Yale Review and elsewhere. She is a winner of the Pushcart Prize.
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Praise for The Tantrum

A uniquely thrilling writer . . . The Tantrum, animated by good humor and ungovernability, is so daring: Garnett shows herself as breakable where the world wants strength, fearless when the reader feels danger. There is simply no one doing personal writing on her level right now

Jia Tolentino, author of TRICK MIRROR

The Tantrum introduces a formidable intellect. Jean Garnett's essays create a region of honest and audacious inquiry composed of what is hilarious, what is painful, and above all, what is nearly unbearable

Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNING

The Tantrum turns its blazing attention on the most intimate precincts of a life—marriage and motherhood, twinhood and friendship, ambition, desire, grief. Jean Garnett is a born essayist: for her, language is an instrument for mulling and shaping, for thinking and rethinking; the results are fierce, funny, and relentlessly self-implicating, the voice on the page always good company. I couldn't put it down

Meghan O'Rourke, author of THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM

The Tantrum is an elegant, funny, totally original story of self-transformation, deepened by the fact that Garnett’s coming-of-age runs alongside that of her identical twin. Few writers are more astute about the way we go looking for ourselves in other people’s bodies and minds

Rachel Aviv, author of STRANGERS TO OURSELVES and YOU WON'T GET FREE OF IT

A beautiful and forensic analysis of intimacy through a range of great loves that brims with wisdom, sorrow, and humor

Melissa Febos, author of GIRLHOOD and THE DRY SEASON

I was blown away by the honesty, humor, and all-around brilliance of The Tantrum. No one has captured the joys and sorrows of relationships in this precarious, exhilarating moment as well as Jean Garnett has in these essays. It's a stone-cold classic

Andrew Martin, author of EARLY WORK and DOWN TIME