Notes to Self

Illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide—from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love.

In this debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her life—those emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes with radical honesty on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic parent, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. This is the story of one woman, and of all women.

Devastating, poignant, and wise—and joyful against the odds—Notes to Self is an unforgettable exploration of what it feels like to be alive, and a daring act of rebellion against a society that is more comfortable with women’s silence.

Ilumineaza experientele pe care femeile ar trebui sa le ascunda - de la dependenta, furie, agresiune sexuala si infertilitate pana la bucurie, senzualitate si dragoste. In acest debut, Emilie Pine vorbeste despre evenimentele care i-au marcat viata - acele perturbari emotionale pentru care societatea noastra nu are un limbaj adecvat, simultan dulce-amarui, clandestin si obisnuit.