I hope you’re enjoying episode 101, featuring my very special guest, Caitlin Myer! She is the author of Wiving, an incredible memoir that I highly recommend. We had such a wonderful discussion and covered so much. To make your search easier, I have included the links you will need to learn more about Caitlin, as well as to purchase your own copy of Wiving. Thank you again, Caitlin, for taking the time to speak with me.
Also included in the accompanying post is the list of shoutouts from the comments section this week. I am stunned and honored after hearing everyone’s kind words. THANK YOU ALL! A special thank you to Shera for helping me shoutout all of our podcast pals this week!
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Read on, and I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Have a great Labor Day weekend! Happy Reading! -Melissa
Wiving by Caitlin Myer
A literary memoir of one woman's journey from wife to warrior, in the vein of breakout hits like Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle. At thirty-six years old, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after . . . when her body betrays her. In a single week, she suffers the twin losses of a hysterectomy and the death of her mother, and she is jolted into a terrible awakening that forces her to reckon with her past—and future.
This is the story of one woman’s lifelong combat with a culture—her “escape” from religion at age twenty, only to find herself similarly trapped in the gender conventions of the secular culture at large, conventions that teach girls and women to shape themselves to please men, to become good wives and mothers. The biblical characters Yael and Judith, wives who became assassins, are her totems as she evolves from wifely submission to warrior independence.
An electric debut that loudly redefines our notions of womanhood, Wiving grapples with the intersections of religion and sex, trauma and love, sickness and mental illness, and a woman’s harrowing enlightenment. Building on the literary tradition of difficult women who struggle to be heard, Wiving introduces an urgent, striking voice to the scene of contemporary women’s writing at a time when we must explode old myths and build new stories in their place.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caitlin Myer is the daughter of a poet and a visual artist, and she grew up in a large, chaotic Mormon family in Provo, Utah. Her short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in No Tokens, Electric Literature, The Butter, Cultural Weekly, and Joyland, among others, and she was a 2012 MacDowell Colony Fellow. In 2010, Myer founded the San Francisco–based literary reading series, Portuguese Artists Colony (PAC), which had its first ever performance in Portugal in September 2019. For seven years she traveled the world, and she has recently settled in Guimarães, Portugal.
Links and Social Media for Caitlin Myer
Website: https://www.caitlinmyer.com/
About Book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wiving/Caitlin-Myer/9781950691470
Email: caitlin.myer@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chemicalbilly
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/caitlin.myer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caitlinwalksatnight/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-myer-2882093/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5136198.Caitlin_Myer
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wiving-Memoir-Loving-Leaving-Patriarchy/dp/1950691470/
Publisher: https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/arcade-publishing/
Shoutouts!
Best Forevers Pod, The Circle Opens Podcast, Four’s A Crowd Podcast, Feminists Without Mystique, That’s the Ticket! Podcast, Mouse and Weens, JayRay/No Phony Podcast Network, Vic/ The Horror Academic’s Guide to Movies, Stork/ Besotted Geek, Round N Round Podcast, Two Peas on a Podcast, Assorted Goods, How to Survive in L.A., Invasion of the Remake, What Does It Matter? Podcast, Talking Codswallop, Body Count: A History Podcast, The Rant with Herman James, Romance at a Glance, Half Ranma, Rock Candy Pod, The Countdown Movie and TV Reviews Podcast, NRI Woman Podcast
No Phony Network Featured Podcast for September: On the Road with Jim and Casey
(on Twitter @ontheroadwithj3)
Promo: Hasmark Publishing Company
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