The Tantrum

“The Tantrum, animated by good humor and ungovernability, is so daring. There is simply no one doing personal writing on Garnett’s level right now."—Jia Tolentino

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 h...