Böcker av April Hirschman

Desire Makes Me Brave is an adventurous and vulnerable memoir about self-discovery and the erotic awakening of a bonafide bisexual. Part sex memoir, part rom-com, part travelog, Desire Makes Me Brave traces the wild and winding escapades of April Hirschman-from her all-but-traditional upbringing in a northern California hippie commune into world-expanding explorations through Asia, Mexico, Europe, and the erotic enclaves of San Francisco. Throw out the blueprint of what life and love "should be" -in this true story, April tap dances along the Kinsey scale of sexuality, finding love, sex and romance with a butch lesbian, an artsy andro girl, straight cis men, and strangers or friends at sex parties. Throughout the memoir, April wrestles with competing desires for a stable, grounded love and for untethered excitement and novelty. She longs for a relationship that lasts, while also desiring all that is subversive, sexy, and new. Lusty, independent, courageous, and sensitive, April becomes a pagan priestess who takes the "slut pledge" and chases rainbow oracles, hoping they will answer the big questions of her love life. Follow April's quest to find security, passion, and sexual fulfillment-and reflect upon your own.

We've all been there. We had a stunning future all laid out with our partner or spouse and then it all fell apart. In this humorous look at breakups we view this pivotal time from a sincere place but also bring in a sense of humor and perspective. Hirschman draw's from her past growing up on a hippie commune in SF to suggest many unusual and often hilarious approaches. She draws on her over 20 years as a tarot reader and a decade as a life coach to give some great concrete tools, practices, and suggestions for getting over a break up. It makes the recovery as fun as possible by including chapters like Movie Therapy, Bridal Dress Shopping (while being single) and Floating in a Deprivation Tank. She also talks about "the geographic cure" and how to perform a breakup ritual. The reader will feel a friend is helping them pick themselves off the floor by offering a warm, knowledgeable and trustworthy hand. It's the perfect combination of levity and expertise.