An Honest Woman is my newest book. You can read an excerpt of it here and here. There’s also a short playlist I made for Largehearted Boy that might capture its tone.

Some writers and friends I deeply admire said nice things about it which I’ll share below. (These blurbs are legit; Torrey’s is an adaption of something she texted me after she first read the book, and Sarah’s was shared of her own volition on her Instagram stories. Melissa, well…I admit Melissa composed this at my request. But I’ve known her for well over a decade and she has never told a lie.)

“With An Honest Woman, Charlotte Shane's already-formidable clarity and grace as a critic and essayist are here turned so honestly, so ruthlessly to an examination of womanhood—of how women make ourselves known to ourselves and to each other under patriarchy. She is one of the very, very few writers I want to read writing about our lives with straight men.” —MELISSA GIRA GRANT, author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work and staff writer at The New Republic

“The first book I’ve burned through in a single sitting in months. Elegant, candid, merciless and moving—it’s an experience to make a reader reconsider how love works.”—TORREY PETERS, author of Detransition, Baby

“I'm in love with Charlotte Shane's writing here, full as it is of clarity, earned beauty, and a deep intelligence at once cerebral and embodied, tender and brutal. I inhaled this book.” —SARAH THANKAM MATHEWS, author of All This Could Be Different