The Big Hurt by Erika Schickel Read by Author - Audiobook Excerpt by HachetteAudio published on 2021-07-21T20:45:11Z This complex memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and all of the later-life consequences that ensue. In 1982, Erika Schickel was expelled from her East Coast prep school for sleeping with a teacher. She was that girl—rebellious, precocious, and macking for love. Seduced, caught, and then whisked away in the night to avoid scandal, Schickel’s provocative, searing, and darkly funny memoir, The Big Hurt, explores the question, How did that girl turn out? Schickel came of age in the 1970s, the progeny of two writers: Richard Schickel, the prominent film critic for TIME magazine, and Julia Whedon, a melancholy mid-list novelist. In the wake of her parents’ ugly divorce, Erika was packed off to a bohemian boarding school in the Berkshires. The Big Hurt tells two coming-of-age stories: one of a lost girl in a predatory world, and the other of that girl grown up, who in reckoning with her past ends up recreating it with a notorious LA crime novelist, blowing up her marriage and casting herself into the second exile of her life. The Big Hurt looks at a legacy of shame handed down through a maternal bloodline and the cost of epigenetic trauma. It shines a light on the haute culture of 1970s Manhattan that made girls grow up too fast. It looks at the long shadow cast by great, monstrously self-absorbed literary lives and the ways in which women pin themselves like beautiful butterflies to the spreading board of male ego. Available August 10, 2021 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Hachette Books. Download: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781549189814-the-big-hurt https://www.downpour.com/the-big-hurt https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/the-big-hurt-3 https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Erika_Schickel_The_Big_Hurt?id=AQAAAEA8E0xTYM https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-big-hurt/id1578643840 https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/the-big-hurt.aspx https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Big-Hurt-Audiobook/1549189816?qid=1628607120&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=DVN90RGMNYA4JVN19H0C https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/big-hurt-a-memoir/492413 https://www.nookaudiobooks.com/audiobook/408741/big-hurt-the https://www.estories.com/audiobook/451672/Erika-Schickel/The-Big-Hurt Check out our other great titles and more at: http://www.hachetteaudio.com Follow us at: twitter.com/HachetteAudio www.tumblr.com/blog/hachetteaudio www.facebook.com/HachetteAudio Genre Audiobooks
