Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

"Women and Other Monsters made me – and I say this as the highest compliment – think about everything I am most afraid of thinking about. Jess Zimmerman weaves together Greek mythology about Medusa, Scylla, The Sphinx and others, with personal experiences and universal challenges, creating essays that that give a framework to even the heaviest considerations: whether to have a child, what a meaningful partnership looks like, what it means to have a fulfilling life, how to want things when you’ve been taught not to. I can already tell that I will be revisiting this collection often, especially at times when I am feeling brave enough to look in the metaphorical mirror."