Tiger, Tiger
  • Published: 7 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241950159
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $27.99
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Tiger, Tiger

A Memoir

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28 Feb 2011
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7 Mar 2011
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Powerfully heartfelt, full of love and despair, Tiger, Tiger is a book with astonishing talk-about-ability. It will be published next year in twenty countries

I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time.

At two in the afternoon, when he would come and pick me up and take me for rides; at five, when I would read to him, head on his chest; in the despair at seven p.m., when he would hold me and rub my belly for an hour; in the despair again at nine p.m. when we would go for a night ride, down to the Royal Cliffs Diner in Englewood Cliffs where I would buy a cup of coffee with precisely seven sugars and a lot of cream. We were friends, soul mates and lovers.

I was seven. He was fifty-one.
  • Published: 7 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241950159
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

About the author

Margaux Fragoso

Margaux Fragoso grew up in Union City, New Jersey. At seven years old, she loved the red gumballs that came from gumball machines but left behind the blues and greens; later, she loved Madonna and still later Nirvana. She still loves dogs and Kurt Cobain, Margaux is happily married with one child and is currently writing full-time. Tiger, Tiger is being published in twenty-two countries.

Praise for Tiger, Tiger

'Tiger, Tiger will start a thousand conversations. It is shocking, revelatory and fearless. As the story of a victim, it is gripping; as a work of literature, it's a triumph'

Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

Margaux Fragoso was only 7 years old when she swam up to a guy in his 50s and asked him to play with her. The mesmerizing memoir of the next fifteen years - spent with the pedophile who became her playmate, father, and lover - had us enraged, horrified, and unable to put it down.

Daily Candy, the 10 Nonfiction Reads of the New Year

Margaux Fragoso's memoir, a subtly crafted account of her 15-year involvement as a child and adolescent with a middle-aged man, asks urgent questions about the traffic between memory and art.

Boyd Tonkin, Ones to Watch in 2011, The Independent

An Observer Cultural Highlight of 2011

The Observer

What I'm Telling My Friends: Brave, dark, and horrifying ... an unforgettable survivor's story. Get it. Read it. NOW!

Julie Kane, LibraryJournal.com

Revelatory...her tale loops amazingly around her own coming-of-age and sets her down in adulthood with a transformative twist...it breaks the mold...an astonishing and heartbreaking drama.

Elle US

We dare you to turn away.

O, The Oprah Magazine

Astonishing.

Marie Claire US

Fragoso is a born storyteller, and stories were her fail-safe during her scarring entanglement with the man who devoured her childhood....[She] matches shattering exposure with humanizing insights and extraordinary compassion.

Booklist

A Top Ten Memoir of 2011.

Publisher's Weekly
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