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. . . Disguised as plain, brown memoir, [this is] a voluptuous exploration of incest stories sexuality, aging, the failures of modern medicine, attempts at self-knowledge, and the meaning of pain."- Kirkus Inside Flap Copy The Camera My incest stories Mother Gave Me takes us through Susanna Kaysen?s often comic, sometimes surreal encounters with all kinds of doctors?internists, gynecologists, ?alternative health? experts?as well as with her boyfriend and her friends, when suddenly, inexplicably, ?something went wrong? with her vagina. The title comes from Luis Buñuel?s film Viridiana. Some peasants are at incest stories a banquet in a country mansion. They ask a maid to take a group snapshot, and she obliges, lifting up her skirt and using the ?camera? that?s underneath.Kaysen?s The Camera My Mother Gave Me observes what happens when sexual pleasure is replaced by pain. ?When eros goes away,? she writes, ?it?s as if I?m colorblind. The world is gray.? But is this a problem of body, or mind?
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