STEAMY

Hot (flash) takes, symptom by symptom, of The Change: Steamy is a raucous menopause memoir.

Steamy explores the cascading list of symptoms people can face when going through The Change (including 2. HOT FLASHES, 21. ANXIETY, and 45. FEWER SHITS). In this comic memoir, Holbrook opens up an experience still constrained by cultural silences and myths. Steamy is honest, vulnerable, gross, and might just be the funniest book you've ever read about menopause, or anything else (see 37. BLOATING). With bonus tear-out fan! From 2. HOT FLASHES: I will de-ice your car lock during a polar vortex, just by giving it the eye. You can fry an egg on my leg. I will warm up your pizza pockets in my pockets. If there's room. I'm incubating a clutch of endangered piping plover eggs in there. Turn down the thermostat! I forestall climate change by conserving fossil fuels. I just sit there and radiate. SUSAN HOLBROOK's poetry books are ink earl, Throaty Wipes, Joy Is So Exhausting, and misled. Her most recent publication is Canon, a chapbook featuring great works of literature translated through a calculator. She has also written a textbook, How to Read (and Write About) Poetry, and edited Intertidal: Daphne MarlattThe Collected Earlier Poems and The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation. Her work has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Trillium Award for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Award. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing.