Famesick: A Memoir

Famesick: A MemoirIn this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain. For the last decade, as shes spent countless hours in doctors waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, being the owner and operator of Lena Dunhams body has felt, as she puts it,

the woman faces some deep questions

With all the old feelings rushing back

I didn't kill the dead human

until an unexpected call from her father forces her to come back home and face it all anew

You can feel the tension building one cold

a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife's mysterious pregnancy

Edi and Ash reminisce

First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy

but every lead brings her to another dead end

where everything has changed

“Cunningly ambitious

Confident Women asks the provocative question: Where does chutzpah intersect with a uniquely female pathology—and how were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their victims