{"product_id":"i-fear-my-pain-interests-you-isbn-9781839766022","title":"I Fear My Pain Interests You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA punky, raw novel of millenial disaffection, trauma and 1960s cinema\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New York and heads to to the Pacific Northwest. She’s seeking to escape both the eyes of the world and the echoing voice of that last bad man. But a chance encounter with a dubious doctor in a graveyard, and the discovery of a dozen old film reels, opens the door to a study of both the peculiarities of her body and the absurdities of her famous family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA literary take on \u003ci\u003ecinema du corps\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephanie LaCava’s new novel is an audaciously sexy and moving exploration of culture and connections, bodies and breakdowns.\u003c\/p\u003e\"A sharp critical vision lurches into focus: of culture as commodity, of suffering as currency, and of the female body as this agon's generalized battleground.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tom McCarthy, author of \u003ci\u003eRemainder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegant ... [\u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003c\/i\u003e] is seeded with references to jazz music and to body-horror French arthouse film, and these frame LaCava's attempt to do something transformative with violence and suffering.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Daisy Hildyard, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A visceral, exorcism-like exploration of a body blunted to pain and a mind moulded by generational trauma, lust, and dysfunction ... sensual, slippery and stylish.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Anna Cafolla, \u003ci\u003eThe Face\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You \u003c\/i\u003eis meticulously constructed, with each part supporting and supported by the others. Controlled self-awareness like this in novels makes me pay close attention, enriching my experience.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tao Lin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"LaCava's book animates its story with something of Patricia Highsmith's sociopathology and Clarice Lispector’s macabre glamor.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—JC Holburn, \u003ci\u003eXRAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephanie LaCava's exploration of the cracks and fault lines in human identity is so sharp it nearly bleeds.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Bollen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A smart, sharply observed critique of literary tropes and the art world\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A slippery, stylish book\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephanie LaCava’s new novel is a destabilizing read—like coming across a sudden anagram in a sentence. The book’s strikingly true-to-life characters are similarly jarring: constantly misunderstood and misunderstanding and fiercely protective of fortresses of self-delusion (though LaCava resists moralization at every turn).\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The cool girl book of the year\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jordan Richman, \u003ci\u003e032c\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The hard, clipped, and cool voice that speaks from within Stephanie LaCava's \u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003c\/i\u003e will live in my head for a long time. Here is a novel that seems to shrug off the pain of being young and adrift in the world, while secretly, it draws you into the dark recesses of loneliness and disillusionment. I fear her book will destroy you.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Merve Emre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I can’t wait to be lured into another of LaCava’s stylized settings, this time an exploration of 1960s cinema and bodily absurdities.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I haven't read a book in a while that just pulled me in, and you're so immersed in the characters and in the world. It's quite a slice of life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kaia Gerber, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The daughter of punk rockstars, with a jeweled cigarette case full of pills and a bloody face, flees to Montana for a quieter life - only to uncover her congenital inability to feel pain, which puts her at risk of one man's desire and ambition, in this absurdist novel about fame and bodies.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNylon, \u003cb\u003eSeptember 2022's Must Read Book Releases\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's the liquid flush of the voice undulating beneath the veneer of the book's punky mask that drew me in.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Adele Bertei, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether it's [Margot's] pain or her detachment that fascinates us, \u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003c\/i\u003e examines issues of power, how it is or is not inherited, what the consequences of being defined by others are, and the ways pain shapes us.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ilana Masad, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Understated and elegant, LaCava's writing inspires both dread and longing; her characters, nearly all of them direct to the point of cruelty, also seem unable to say anything that would lead to real emotional connection. The horrors of this book build so subtly that their apex seems both unfathomable and inevitable, like a deep fear that finally comes to pass.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Corinne Segal, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub, \u003cb\u003e22 Novels You Need to Read this Fall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nonlinear in format and stark in its use of language, this brief but impactful novel is going to stay with me for a while. \u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003c\/i\u003e is a stark and singularly unforgettable read.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Vogel, \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"LaCava approaches her second novel, \u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003c\/i\u003e, as the next logical step beyond our obsession with a sad–girl world. The kind of dissociative feminism she skewers is a well–documented media phenomenon. Rather than further suggesting distance and aloofness like the cool–girl trope, LaCava inverts this concept to lift Margot away from the trappings of commodification.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Caitlin Quinlan, \u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003c\/i\u003e] considers what it means to be a woman in the world, as well as pain, sex, fear, corporeal or otherwise, and maybe even love as well.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Grace Linden, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like a lyric from a cherished song or a fragment from a beloved poem, \u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You \u003c\/i\u003ehints at all the most compelling themes - hurting, intrigue, dominance, submission, lust, and dysfunction.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Emily Dinsdale, \u003ci\u003eAnOther\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning ... \u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003c\/i\u003e is slim but satisfying, with LaCava as our talented chef who won't let us forget whose bones we're gnawing on.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jessa Crispin, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sinister, revolting - and uncannily elegant.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Cal Revely-Calder, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Intriguing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Terrien, \u003ci\u003eArtReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A quality of distance - from sensation and experience, from self and others - manifests most effectively when characters are talking; no one writes dialogue quite like LaCava.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gideon Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eI Fear My Pain Interests You\u003c\/i\u003e] sets up inheritances - of privilege, or trauma - as stages for exploring the masochistic relationships between self-awareness and pain.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jessica Loudis, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Depressed, isolated, and deprived of her own creative outlet, Margot's plight is tragic, but not without its own perverse sense of comedy: no pain, no fame.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A cool, cutthroat razor of a novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Philippa Snow, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It destroyed me, in a good way.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brock Colyar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alluring and melancholy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephanie LaCava\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer based in New York City. 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