This complex Memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and all of the later-life consequences that ensue.
She lives and writes in Los Angeles..
Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times , The Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, Bust Magazine, Salon, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, The Chicago Tribune and more.
About author(s): Erika Schickel is the author of You\'re Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom (2007).
It looks at the long shadow cast by great, monstrously self-absorbed literary lives and the ways in which women pin themselves like beautiful butterflies to the spreading board of male ego.
It shines a light on the haute culture of 1970s Manhattan that made girls grow up too fast.
The Big Hurt looks at a legacy of shame handed down through a maternal bloodline and the cost of epigenetic trauma.
The Big Hurt tells two coming-of-age stories: one of a lost girl in a predatory world, and the other of that girl grown up, who in reckoning with her past ends up recreating it with a notorious LA crime novelist, blowing up her marriage and casting herself into the second exile of her life.
In the wake of her parents\' ugly divorce, Erika was packed off to a bohemian boarding school in the Berkshires.
Seduced, caught, and then whisked away in the night to avoid scandal, Schickel\'s provocative, searing, and darkly funny memoir, The Big Hurt , explores the question, How did that girl turn out? Schickel came of age in the 1970s, the progeny of two writers: Richard Schickel, the prominent film critic for TIME magazine, and Julia Whedon, a melancholy mid-list novelist.
She was that girl--rebellious, precocious, and macking for love.
In 1982, Erika Schickel was expelled from her East Coast prep school for sleeping with a teacher.
This complex Memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and all of the later-life consequences that ensue
