Damaged Goods

There are books that entertain, and there are books that disturb; but there are rare volumes that perform the more dangerous labor of awakening. Damaged Goods belongs to that bracing and disquieting tradition. In its pages, the social conscience of the early twentieth century finds both its wound and its voice. What begins as the intimate story of youth, love, and expectation unfolds into a searching meditation upon secrecy, shame, and the moral evasions of modern civilization.

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