Famesick: A Memoir
5 | 8 ratings
Price: 13.99
Last update: 04-20-2026
Product details
- ASIN : B0FKGJ26MK
- Publisher : Random House
- Accessibility :
- Publication date : April 14, 2026
- Language : English
- File size : 2.2 MB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 406 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593129333
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank:#20 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- Customer Reviews:5.05.0 out of 5 stars(1)
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- Kiki LabradorBeautiful friendI'm up with PTSD insomnia and this book is like a fairy godsister to me right now, somehow I just downloaded it the first night it's available, kismet.
The introduction is stellar, beautiful; these are very difficult to write well and she knocks it out of the park. The introduction to me is very exciting for the promise of the level of her work to come over the long haul even beyond this excellent book, which so far manages to balance discussing the progress of her career and the tangle that was the progression from Tiny Furniture to Girls with personal and emotional story arcs of a deeper nature.
Right now I'm on page 127, she's in the Jack Antonoff era and it's so sweet at this point. I have so many things to say, but I'm really struck right now by the undercurrent story of of the effect of millenials being the first generation of women to come into their sexuality through neural-deep level mass brain invasion of porn and to navigate that terrain somehow into actual love.
I'm also in love with the very honest section about fame and how it makes normal boundaries almost impossible and induces an extreme level of codependency in terms of being asked for constant favors, and the pressure any young woman without a cluster b personality disorder would feel to give into that and lean into over giving and extreme masking of ones own needs. The alienation of having what everybody wants (*thinks* they want) and how unthinkably impossible it is to live sanely like that in reality-- I'm glad she's talking about it.
I love seeing the portrait of Lena's parents. It's nice to see her mom, artist Laurie Simmons, fleshed out as such a cool, complex, loving but no nonsense and slightly distanced modern mom who ferociously supports her daughter when it matters, but doesn't do helicopter Mom bs at all. And it's beautiful to see Lena's very very funny dad and how he complexly protects and cares for his daughter.
I should probably go to sleep. It's hard to put this book down but I'm glad it's a friend to me already in the middle of the night when I could use one. Thanks, Lena. This is a gift.