Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman by Walker, Harron

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

"An essay collection that covers everything from the freelance hustle to the state of trans healthcare in...
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Author: Harron Walker
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Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman by Walker, Harron

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

$44.24

Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman

$44.24
Author: Harron Walker
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"An essay collection that covers everything from the freelance hustle to the state of trans healthcare in the U.S. with a dryly confessional, comedic voice guaranteed to make you burst out laughing."--Vogue

"Walker cuts to the heart of what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century, all accomplished with her searingly biting wit."--Harper's Bazaar

After a brief fling with corporate stability in her twenty-something cis era, Harron Walker has transitioned into a terminally single freelancer and part-time shopgirl. She's in the throes of her second adolescence and its requisite daily spirals. She wants it all, otherwise known as: basic human rights, a stable job with good pay and healthcare benefits, someone to love, the ability to feel safe and secure, the pursuit of satisfaction and maybe even contentment. And when she starts to acquire those things--well, as The Monkey's Paw famously asked, "What could go wrong?"

In sixteen wholly original essays that blend memoir, cultural criticism, investigative journalism, and a dash of fanfiction, Walker places her own experiences within the larger context of the pressing and underdiscussed aspects of contemporary American womanhood that make up daily life. She recounts an attempt to eviscerate a corporation's attempt at pinkwashing their way into bath bomb sales while simultaneously confronting her "pick me" impulse to do so. She interrogates her relationship to labor, from the irony of working in a transphobic workplace in order to cover gender-affirming surgery to the cruel specter of the girlboss that none of us ever think we'll become. She explores the allure and violence of assimilating into white womanhood in all its hegemonic glory, exposes the ways in which the truth of trans women's reproductive healthcare is erased in favor of reactionary narratives, and considers how our agency is stripped from us--by governments, employers, partners, and ourselves--purely on account of our bodies.

With razor-sharp, biting prose that's as uncompromising as it is playful, Walker grapples with questions of love, sex, fertility, labor, embodiment, community, autonomy, and body fluids from her particular vantagepoint: often at the margins, conditionally at the center.

Author: Harron Walker
Publisher: Random House
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780593450048


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/31/2025
Library Journal 03/21/2025 pg. 1
Booklist 04/16/2025
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2025

About the Author
Harron Walker is a contributor to MOTHA's Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects and Sex Change & the City, a forthcoming anthology from Girl Dad Press. Her work has appeared in New York, Interview, GQ, Out, and other publications.

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