The Electric Woman Fontaine

Tessa fontaine is the author of the electric woman.

The electric woman fontaine.

A new york post most unforgettable book of 2018. Tessa spent the 2013 season performing with the last american traveling circus sideshow the world of wonders. The electric woman by tessa fontaine tessa fontaine s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear the electric woman follows the author on a life affirming journey of loss and self discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling american sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous spirited mother. Tessa fontaine s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear the electric woman follows the author on a life affirming journey of loss and self discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling american sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous spirited mother.

I read the electric woman in a hallucinatory fever filled with hospital beds and carnival rides gray eyes and biting boa constrictors brain bleeds and headless bodies fire eaters and electrified women. The electric woman is a sideshow act. Fontaine s memoir is a brilliant testament to family grief love and the astonishing trick of being and feeling alive annie hartnett author of rabbit cake the electric woman is a love story a coming of age a brilliant exploration of discovery by a young woman ultimately set free by the flames of fire. A memoir in death defying acts a new york times editors choice.

Its star electra sits on a chair and conducts electricity with her body lighting light bulbs with her tongue. A refinery29 best book of 2018. Tessa fontaine a young woman with an mfa in literature joins world of wonders the last traveling sideshow for their 2013 season 150 days of long hours hard work and performing as a bally girl outside the show helping lure customers inside with fire eating and such a talker providing a running commentary on some of the inside acts and a performer the headless woman the four legged woman and ultimately as the electric woman. So the more i read the stronger my aha moment was when i discovered tessa fontaine s electric woman is a feminist hero s journey.

In the electric woman tessa fontaine is an escape artist determined to detonate the grim reality of mere existence taking us on the most original journey i can remember in a recent memoir. She doesn t just seem to. A southern living best book of 2018. She had me now.