![]() ![]() Some of those bodies we invite some thrust themselves upon us. For while she quickly moves to relating her own tales of sexual abuse and exploration, she never lets us forget that an embodied life is always full of the impress, imprint, and pressure of other bodies. It’s also an unusual choice for a book that seems to be a memoir instead of offering a story, however painful, from her own life, Gurba disturbs us with a deadly violent sexual assault on another woman.Īnd yet this opening might be the most appropriate choice Gurba could have made. It’s a startlingly rendered scene, spare and painful. MYRIAM GURBA’S Mean opens with the brutal rape and murder of a young homeless Mexican woman named Sophia. ![]()
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