The Tantrum

“There is simply no one doing personal writing on Garnett’s level right now."—Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

A portrait of intimacy and upheaval that uses personal stories of marriage, separation, twinhood, parenting, sex, and money to explore the tension of being both subsumed into others and alone.

After an experiment in nonmonogamy upends her life, calling into question every choice she has made and everything she has believed about herself, Jean Garnett gropes her way toward a ne...