Any Man

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What is remarkable is how each of these men band together, and it is by voicing their stories that they find strength and a way forward.

Amber Tamblyn - Wikipedia Amber Tamblyn - Wikipedia

There are several scenes--intimate expressions of grief and processing trauma where the words on the page light up like neon signs. A new collection of poetry, Bang Ditto, was published in September 2009 by San Francisco's Manic D Press. Chapters vary in form, with the closest well-known comparisons being Mark Danielewski’s “House of Leaves” or Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad. The story is a mosaic of voices, of men who are assaulted by a serial rapist—a female serial rapist.At the center of the novel is a serial rapist named Maude who reduces the men in her path to objects of prey. By turning the tables on the typical serial assailant trope, Tamblyn challenges the widely held beliefs of the public at large in regard to how we treat victims.

Any Man: A Novel - Amber Tamblyn - Google Books

In “Any Man,” Tamblyn steps further into the abyss, “imagining every extreme” she could think of for her characters to have endured in the past — from excision of genitalia to forced bestiality. She also uses artistic choices to blend the horrors of everyday life with the horrors of the genre to create a sort of otherworldly, monstrous look at perpetrators of sexual violence.We see each man struggling with what has happened to him personally, each with a very different voice--and then the media circus begins, adding its own brand of vicious ugliness to the suffering.