The Shame by Goodman, Makenna
The Shame by Goodman, Makenna

The Shame

A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down...
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Author: Makenna Goodman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Shame by Goodman, Makenna

The Shame

$21.60
The Shame by Goodman, Makenna

The Shame

$21.60
Author: Makenna Goodman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make" (Alexander Chee, Paris Review).

Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind--speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York.

In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment: the joys and claustrophobia of their remote life; her fears and uncertainties about motherhood; the painfully awkward faculty dinners; her feelings of loneliness and failure; and her growing fascination with Celeste, a mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelgänger who becomes an obsession for Alma.

A fable both blistering and surreal, The Shame is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking debut about a woman in isolation, whose mind--fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art--attempts to betray her.

Honors for The Shame:

  • A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020
  • A Literary Hub Recommended Read for August 2020
  • A Bustle "Most Anticipated Book of August 2020"
  • A Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, Selected by Miciah Bay Gault
  • A White Review Recommended Read of 2020
  • A Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020


Author: Makenna Goodman
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 08/11/2020
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781571311368


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/22/2020
Booklist 07/01/2020 pg. 21
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2020
Shelf Awareness 08/21/2020

About the Author
Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame, which was named a Harvard Review Favorite Book of 2020, a White Review Recommended Read, a Refinery29 Best New Book, a Literary Hub Recommended Read, a Bustle Most Anticipated Book, a Boston.com Book Club Pick, and more. Interviews, words, and work have been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review, Electric Literature, Guernica, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Rumpus, the Adroit Journal, and Commonplace Podcast, and are forthcoming in the Harvard Review, BOMB, the White Review, and the New York Review of Books. Based in Vermont, Goodman is a former editor of books on agriculture and food who writes about, among other things, the intersection of land stewardship and capitalism.
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