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Powerfully heartfelt, full of love and despair, Tiger, Tiger is a book with astonishing talk-about-ability. It will be published next year in twenty countries I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in the despair again at nine p.m. when we would go for a night ride, down to the Royal Cliffs Diner in Englewood Cliffs where I would buy a cup of coffee with precisely seven sugars and a lot of cream. We were friends, soul mates and lovers. I was seven. He was fifty-one.

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'Tiger, Tiger will start a thousand conversations. It 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

'Tiger, Tiger will start a thousand conversations. It 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 Margaux Fragoso was only 7 years old when she swam up to a guy in his 50s and asked him to play with her. The mesmerizing memoir of the next fifteen years o spent with the pedophile who became her playmate, father, and lover o had us enraged, horrified, and unable to put it down. Daily Candy, the 10 Nonfiction Reads of the New Year Margaux Fragoso's memoir, a subtly crafted account of her 15-year involvement as a child and adolescent with a middle-aged man, asks urgent questions about the traffic between memory and art. -- Boyd Tonkin, Ones To Watch In 2011 The Independent An Observer Cultural Highlight of 2011 The Observer What I'm Telling My Friends: Brave, dark, and horrifying ... an unforgettable survivor's story. Get it. Read it. NOW! -- Julie Kane LibraryJournal.com

'Tiger, Tiger will start a thousand conversations. It 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 Margaux Fragoso was only 7 years old when she swam up to a guy in his 50s and asked him to play with her. The mesmerizing memoir of the next fifteen years o spent with the pedophile who became her playmate, father, and lover o had us enraged, horrified, and unable to put it down. Daily Candy, the 10 Nonfiction Reads of the New Year Margaux Fragoso's memoir, a subtly crafted account of her 15-year involvement as a child and adolescent with a middle-aged man, asks urgent questions about the traffic between memory and art. -- Boyd Tonkin, Ones To Watch In 2011 The Independent An Observer Cultural Highlight of 2011 The Observer What I'm Telling My Friends: Brave, dark, and horrifying ... an unforgettable survivor's story. Get it. Read it. NOW! -- Julie Kane LibraryJournal.com Revelatory...her tale loops amazingly around her own coming-of-age and sets her down in adulthood with a transformative twist...it breaks the mold...an astonishing and heartbreaking drama. Elle US We dare you to turn away. O, The Oprah Magazine Astonishing. Marie Claire US Fragoso is a born storyteller, and stories were her fail-safe during her scarring entanglement with the man who devoured her childhood...[She] matches shattering exposure with humanizing insights and extraordinary compassion. Booklist A Top Ten Memoir of 2011. Publisher's Weekly

'Tiger, Tiger will start a thousand conversations. It 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 Margaux Fragoso was only 7 years old when she swam up to a guy in his 50s and asked him to play with her. The mesmerizing memoir of the next fifteen years - spent with the pedophile who became her playmate, father, and lover - had us enraged, horrified, and unable to put it down. * Daily Candy, the 10 Nonfiction Reads of the New Year * Margaux Fragoso's memoir, a subtly crafted account of her 15-year involvement as a child and adolescent with a middle-aged man, asks urgent questions about the traffic between memory and art. -- Boyd Tonkin, Ones to Watch in 2011 * The Independent * An Observer Cultural Highlight of 2011 * The Observer * What I'm Telling My Friends: Brave, dark, and horrifying ... an unforgettable survivor's story. Get it. Read it. NOW! -- Julie Kane * LibraryJournal.com * Revelatory...her tale loops amazingly around her own coming-of-age and sets her down in adulthood with a transformative twist...it breaks the mold...an astonishing and heartbreaking drama. * Elle US * We dare you to turn away. * O, The Oprah Magazine * Astonishing. * Marie Claire US * Fragoso is a born storyteller, and stories were her fail-safe during her scarring entanglement with the man who devoured her childhood....[She] matches shattering exposure with humanizing insights and extraordinary compassion. * Booklist * A Top Ten Memoir of 2011. * Publisher's Weekly *

Vanessa writes: Margaux first met Peter at a public swimming pool when he was fifty-one and she was seven. When Peter invited Margaux and her mother to his house, Margaux discovered an exciting world far removed from her lonely days at school and her violent and unpredictable father. Soon Margaux was spending all her time with Peter. Margaux's mother suffered from a debilitating mental illness and she too viewed their visits as an escape from her oppressive life at home with an abusive husband. Fragoso eloquently depicts her 15 year relationship with Peter as he slowly manipulates his way through the role of playmate, father, and eventually, lover. Brutally honest and beautifully written, Tiger, Tiger is a brave and unflinching memoir. While this is a very difficult read, it provides a frightening insight in to the way paedophiles work. This book will be talked about for years to come.

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Margaux Fragoso grew up in Union City, New Jersey. When she was seven she loved the red gumballs that came from gumball machines but left behind the blues and greens; later, she loved Madonna and still later Kurt Cobain. Margaux now has one daughter and no longer lives in New Jersey. Tiger, Tiger will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States and is already being translated into seventeen languages.

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