Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Individual Photographer Books Once Upon a Time meets

Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Maehrer's laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel

Park Slope

with whom he has been staying since his abrupt return to the States from Israel

' and all those Godfather movies

only to stumble upon the body of a ritualistically killed sheep

Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure Individual Photographer Books Once Upon a Time meetsA searing portrait of a mother's body a resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness Four months postpartum with her second child, Catherine Simone Gray is back at her doctor's office, surveying a childbirth wound that refuses to mend. Proud flesh tissue that overheals to become its own wound.