It made all the anger and guilt and bullshit kind of rise up and turn into a sort of righteous feeling of pride. The topic is tough (is an understatement,) but absolutely necessary- I'd recommend this to anyone looking for something different. She also knows that makes her a target of sorts, like when her husband David Cross participated in an interview for his show “Arrested Development” that sounded like the men were excusing abusive behavior. Photograph: Dia Dipasupil/Getty View image in fullscreen Amber Tamblyn at the book launch of Any Man in New York. Sometimes the men are advocating for themselves and sometimes they're slipping through the cracks of mental health and stability.

Although the attacks are a huge part of the story, we begin to see the MCs start the beginning stages of healing.

And while I crossed my legs a couple times, I also moved quickly beyond the physical OOF of it all and into a space that I realize I'd never been before, a new understanding of the mind of a survivor. exploitative sensationalist media does so much harm, often under the guise of "news" or raising awareness. In her blazingly original and unforgettable debut novel "Any Man", Amber Tamblyn brings to startling life a specter of sexual violence in the shadowy form of Maude, a serial female rapist who preys on men. how can you tell a joke and enjoy laughter without hearing the one laugh that owns every root in you now?

What I think is absolutely brilliant, is that the book uses male victims in the story to create a powerful point that is two-pronged. The bus stopped and he disappeared into the crowd and I wouldn't have been able to pick him out of a line up even if I had found a cop.It lost me in the first few pages at "A bird the size of the memory of a bird passes over like a spider falling perpendicularly," but I forged on for a while to see if it could engage me. I will take the guilt and the second guessing and the fear of people staring and wondering what I did to make him do that and I will tell it to fuck right the hell off. Amber hyped up the story being about a female serial rapist but she’s honestly more of a serial torturer but definitely sexually motivated.