A heady cocktail of sex and trauma, refracted through the lens of ten
of Alfred Hitchcock's iconic movies.
Imagine an episodic memoir that braids together insights about Alfred
Hitchcock's movies with the narrative of a woman's life: scenes of
growing up in Brooklyn in the sixties and seventies as the daughter of a
schizophrenic mother and a traveling salesman father, adolescent sexual
traumas, and adult botched marriages and relationships-- all refracted
through the lens of ten of Alfred Hitchcock's iconic movies.
In each chapter, the narrator--an award-winning poet--trains her
idiosyncratic lens on a different film and then onto the uncanny
connections they conjure up from her own life. A singular cliffhanging
tale, reminiscent in style of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran
and Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk.