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    Open Me

    By Lisa Locascio

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  • A page-turning journey of psychological intrigue, eroticism, and poignant coming of age, OPEN ME follows a naïve young American during one summer in Denmark in which she becomes embroiled in two romantic relationships—one with her “guide” Soren and one with Geden, a Muslim refugee from the Balkan War

  • Glowing praise already in from Viet Nguyen and TC Boyle, with promised blurbs imminent from Aimee Bender, Stuart Dybeck, Francine Prose, Darcey Steinke, Emily Fridlund and more

  • A charged and dangerously compelling exploration of female desire, Locascio depicts the body and sex with raw, dark, psychological power, calling to mind books like BAD BEHAVIOR by Mary Gaitskil, HAUSFRAU by Jill Alexander Essbaum, EILEEN by Otessa Moshfegh, Jennifer Egan’s THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang, and the groundbreaking work of Marguerite Duras and Anais Nin

  • Lisa’s work has been published in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House, Bookforum, American Short Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is publisher of Joyland Magazine and editor of 7x7 and has previously held editorial positions at the New Yorker and Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Set in Denmark in 2010, the novel examines the xenophobic climate towards refugees and Muslims in Northern Europe in the wake of the 2005 Muhammed Drawings

  • OPEN ME can be read as a contemporary gothic—it directly draws on the genre’s tropes of isolation, madness, confusion, eroticism, dreams and nightmares, outsiders, and vampirism

  • Locascio currently teaches at Wesleyan and holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California, and a MFA and BA from NYU

    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrove Press
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9780802165701
    Author

    Lisa Locascio

    Lisa Locascio’s work has been published in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Bookforum, Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. She is co-publisher of Joyland and editor of 7x7LA. Open Me is her first novel.

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    • 2/5
      This book is really just thinly veiled soft porn. It starts out with good character development but the secondary characters are flat and often ridiculous. The book ultimately devolves into continuous and contrived sex scenes that seem more about just writing detailed sex than about any content at all whatsoever. Calling this a “novel” is kind of a stretch. I wish I hadn’t wasted my time on it. If you’re looking for fodder for self-pleasure, it’s great. If you’re looking for a good read, look elsewhere.
    • 3/5
      I had a hard time reaching a conclusion on this book. The heroine at first comes across as a typical American tourist, almost completely ignorant about the rest of the world. Later, she seems to develop some more depth, but still seems primarily consumed by the need for sex and being physically beautiful. In the end, she listens to an explanation of the psychology of the two men in her life, but doesn't understand much of it. She thinks that she has grown by her experiences, but I doubt by very much. Perhaps my views are influenced by a profound lack of understanding of young women. In the end this book is probably a book for young people, not for old men like me.