Steamy
A Menopause Symptomology
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2025
- Category
- Menopause, Women, Relationships
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552455029
- Publish Date
- Apr 2025
- List Price
- $23.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770568440
- Publish Date
- Apr 2025
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
Hot (flash) takes, symptom by symptom, of The Change: Steamy is a raucous menopause memoir.
Steamy explores the cascading list of symptoms people can face when going through The Change (including 2. Hot Flashes, 21. Anxiety, and 45. Fewer Shits). In this comic memoir, Holbrook opens up an experience still constrained by cultural silences and myths. Steamy is honest, vulnerable, gross, and might just be the funniest book you’ve ever read about menopause, or anything else (see 37. Bloating).
With bonus tear-out fan!
About the author
Susan Holbrook’s poetry books are Ink Earl (Coach House 2021), Throaty Wipes (Coach House 2016), Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House 2009), and misled (Red Deer 1999). Her most recent publication is Canon (Zed 2022), a chapbook featuring great works of literature translated through a calculator. She has also written a textbook, How to Read (and Write About) Poetry (Broadview Press 2021), and edited Intertidal: Daphne Marlatt--The Collected Earlier Poems (Talonbooks) and The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (Oxford UP). Her work has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Trillium Award for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Award. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She lives in Leamington, Ontario.
