Disgust: A Memoir

November 2021 from Scuppernong Editions.

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Grant’s meditations read like prose poems, each economically summoning another intricacy of her subject. She moves with unusual grace between the universal and the highly specific, revealing startling truths about love and fear and anger and pain and redemption.
Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

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This hybrid memoir by Stephanie Grant makes sense of three generations of self-disgust in her family, illuminating how ugly feelings challengesnot only our experiences of intimacy, but also the very American ideal of equality itself.

 Praise for Disgust: A Memoir

  • Grant's juxtapositions of disgust and love—taut poles of tension reminiscent of poetry—through these various threads demonstrate the power of hybridity and the connective tissue that develops through brief bursts of prose. - Chet’la Sebree, Field Study

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    “Starkly beautiful and infinitely true. Disgust is a deep and brilliant gaze into all it truly means to feel, to be human, to love.” – Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

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    Disgust is a one-two punch of intimacy and insight; in a series of sharp aperçus, Grant goes unflinchingly towards what we can’t stand about ourselves and each other. Her sagacity will astonish you: this is a masterly display of the artistry of beautiful thinking –– you will see disgust, and yourself, anew. Hanna Pylväinen, We Sinners

  • Breakfast in Fur, Surrealist sculpture

    “Stephanie Grant’s Disgust is a brilliant shape-shifter of a book. It is a prose poem and a narrative, a philosophical inquiry and a political jeremiad, which makes it at once a twenty-first century masterwork on human frailty. Utterly fresh and luminous.” –Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises

  • May Wilson Ridiculous Portrait

    “Throughout the memoir, the very memorable intersects with the revolting-revulsion as departure, revolt–and yet Grant shows us even lovingly and with cheerful curiosity that what triggers one's disgust is often associated with one's own fears and wounds, one's own histories genetic and personal." -David Keplinger, author of “The World to Come”

  • Linda Villarosa, Instagram: Psyched to read this book by Stephanie Grant!

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    “A lyrical and searching examination of our most human selves.” — Richard Sha, author of “Imagination and Science in Romanticism"

For Instructors & Book Groups

Disgust: A Memoir is ideal for probing conversations about “difficult” emotions, the complexities of love & sex, literary life writing, and techniques of creative nonfiction. Stephanie may be able to join your conversation about Disgust via Zoom. Write to her using the email form on the contact page, giving the date, time, and the nature of the event.