Margaux Fragoso recently completed a PhD in English and creative writing at Binghamton University. Her short stories and poems have appeared in "The Literary Review "and "Barrow Street," among other literary journals.
Praise for "Tiger, Tiger
"""Tiger, Tiger "will start a thousand conversations. Margaux
Fragoso achieves the unthinkable with empathic clarity: she
humanizes a pedophile. In doing so, she makes his crime
unimaginably more frightening. Her portrayal of their relationship
is shocking, revelatory, and fearless. As the story of a victim, it
is gripping; as a work of literature, it's a triumph." --Alice
Sebold, author of "The Lovely Bones
""In this gut-wrenching memoir of sexual abuse, [Margaux Fragoso]
explores with unflinching honesty the ways in which pedophiles can
manipulate their ways into the lives of children . . . Fragoso's
sense of alienation--Curran controlled her world for more than half
her life--is palpable in her telling. Using her own diaries and the
myriad letters, diaries, and photographs Curran left behind,
Fragoso eloquently depicts psychological and sexual abuse in
disturbing detail." --"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Disqueting . . . Culled from the four diaries she kept during the
ordeal, Fragoso writes with searing honesty about her serpentine
entanglement and of Curran's calculated, menacing exploitation of
her. Intensive psychotherapy and new motherhood provide a hopeful
coda to her unspeakable experience. A gripping, tragic and
unforgettable chronicle of lost innocence and abuse." --"Kirkus
Reviews" (starred review)
"You may think you've already decided about a child's ordeal with a
sexual predator, but under Margaux Fragoso's command you will
consider the richest depths of experience, terrible, bright, and
beautiful. Fragoso writes with unguarded grace and provides a
voice--real and haunting--for those children, everywhere among us,
who are deprived of theirs." --Susanna Sonnenberg, author of "Her
Last Death
"""Tiger, Tiger "is stunning, in all the possible manifestations of
that word." --Nick Flynn, author of "Another Bullshit Night in Suck
City
""Once in a generation, an essential book--a necessary book--comes
along and challenges our bedrock assumptions about life. Margaux
Fragoso's "Tiger, Tiger "is that book. Family life, the corruption
of innocence, sexual abuse, pedophilia--all are unflinchingly yet
exquisitely rendered as Fragoso experienced them. You will never
view childhood the same way after reading Fragoso's monumentally
important book." --Louise DeSalvo, author of "Writing as a Way of
Healing"
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