“I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound.” 

"In this formidable, ferocious, and ground-breaking memoir, Carmen Maria Machado turns her extraordinary talents ­– first demonstrated in the genre-bending Her Body and Other Parties – towards the story of her own life, and in the process begins to form an archive where, shamefully, there is none. Writing with nuance, bravery, rigour, and determination about abuse in queer relationships and the cultural assumptions which keep the voices of victims unheard and delegitimised, Machado has crafted a modern masterpiece of nonfiction that carves out a space for the stories that so desperately need telling within our communities. An unsettling, fiercely intelligent, and powerful read.” - Zak