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My Good Bright Wolf

A Memoir

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My Good Bright Wolf

Written by: Sarah Moss
Narrated by: Morven Christie
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National Book Critics Circle Award nominee, 2024

"Morven Christie's limpid, Scottish-inflected voice and gentle, enticing tone combine to lure listeners into Sarah Moss's astonishing seventh novel as effectively as mermaids tempt sailors into the sea"—AudioFile on Summerwater (Earphones Award winner)

A New York Magazine Most-Anticipated Book of the Fall

From the acclaimed author of Ghost Wall, Summerwater, and The Fell—Sarah Moss’s My Good Bright Wolf is an unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves.

A girl must watch her figure but never be vain. She must be intelligent but never a know-it-all. She must be ambitious, if she is clever, but not in a way that shows. She must cook and sew and make do and mend. She must know (but never say) that these skills are, in some fundamental way, flawed and frivolous—feminine. Girls must stay small, even as they grow. Women must show restraint.

And yet. In books, in the landscape of imagination, a girl can run free.

Here, with My Good Bright Wolf, Sarah Moss takes on these rules, these lessons from the fables of girlhood, and uses them to fearlessly investigate the nature of memory, the lure of self-control, the impact of privilege, scarcity, parents, love. Through narratives of women and food, second-wave feminism and postwar puritanism, and her own challenges with a health care system that discounts the experiences of those it ought to serve, Moss seeks truth in the stories we tell ourselves and others. Harm can become power. Attention can become care. A body and a mind, though working hard together, can be at odds.

And yet. In books, in the landscape of imagination, a girl can run free.

Beautiful and sharp, moving and unapologetic, erudite and very funny, My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir that breaks the rules.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

©2024 Sarah Moss (P)2024 Macmillan Audio
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What the critics say

“Spellbinding imagination and sizzling prose . . . Described with such tenderness and poetry . . . [My Good Bright Wolf is] important literature: for women, for trauma survivors, for those struggling with mental health and good issues, and for vulnerable people searching in the dark for their power.”—Dina Nayeri, The Guardian

“There’s something beautifully wild and dangerous about this book . . . An audacious attempt to reconcile the life of the body with that of the mind . . . My Good Bright Wolf is a howl both exquisitely anguished and profound. It’s further proof that Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape.”—Lucy Scholes, The Telegraph

“At dramatic moments [Moss’s] approach reveals something that seems to approach truth, in all its messy, kaleidoscopic glory.”—Emily Gould, New York

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