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portada Big Girls Don't Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.86x15.24 cm
ISBN13
9780807024379

Big Girls Don't Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space

Susan Swan (Author) · Beacon Press · Paperback

Big Girls Don't Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space - Susan Swan

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Synopsis "Big Girls Don't Cry: A Memoir About Taking Up Space"

"[Swan's writing offers] not only an enjoyable read, but also the chance to think and reflect on the vast complex living entity that is the world." —Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk

Where do we belong if we don't fit in?

A memoir about what it means to defy expectations as a woman, a mother and an artist, with a foreword from award-winning writer Margaret Atwood

Susan Swan has never fit inside the boxes that other people have made for her_x2014_the daughter box, the wife box, the mother box, the femininity box. Instead, throughout her richly lived, independent decades, she has carved her own path and lived with the consequences.

In this revealing and revelatory memoir, Swan shares the key moments of her life. As a child in a small Ontario town, she was defined by her size_x2014_attracting ridicule because she was six-foot-two by the age of twelve. She left her marriage to be a single mother and a fiction writer in the edgy, underground art scene of 1970s Toronto. In her forties, she embraced the new freedom of the Aphrodite years. Despite the costs to her relationships, Swan kept searching for the place she fit, living in the literary circles of New York while seeking pleasure and spiritual wisdom in Greece, and culminating in the hard-won experience of true self-acceptance in her seventies.

Swan examines the expectations of women of her generation and beyond using the lens of her then-unusual height as a metaphor for the way women are expected not to take up space in the world. Inspiring and thought-provoking, Big Girls Don’t Cry invites us to re-examine what we've been taught to believe about ourselves and ask how it could be different.

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