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Apples & Oranges

My Journey through Sexual Identity

By: Jan Clausen

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Paperback | 15 July 2017

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256 Pages

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20.7 x 14.1 x 1.9

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Both an intimate memoir and an intellectual musing on sex, gender, and relationships, Apples & Oranges allows writer and academic Jan Clausen to use her own life story as a model for new ways of thinking through sexual categories. Born into a stifling family where neither sex talk nor the slightest profanity was tolerated, Clausen underwent an intellectual and sexual awakening, first at Reed College, and later on the streets of New York City, where she discovered her passions for both the life of the mind and other women. Fast-forward a number of years, and, bored with a life that had become predictable, she moved herself to Nicaragua, where she discovered a newfound freedom -- including the freedom to fall in love with a man. With unflinching clarity and a willingness to treat her own life as case study, Clausen asks to us to reconsider the inherited scripts and categories that have informed our notions of gender, sex, and intimacy. In discovering a space outside of any pre-conceived identity, she finds and offers us the freedom of true self-determination, the power to explore our own inclinations and desires, unburdened by the expectations of the outer world, uncluttered by the baggage so many of us carry within.

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"Jan Clausen's memoir is more relevant now than ever. Apples & Oranges is at once a riveting personal narrative about the sacrifices we make for love, and an intellectual examination of the ways that intimacy, identity, and community entangle in our lives and selves. It is a book that shows us with grace and stirring honesty how severing an attachment--to our lovers, to our self-conceptions--can collapse everything we thought permanent, and reveal what truly is." --Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me

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