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| Author | Blake Butler |
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| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Archway Editions |
Publication date | 2023 |
| ISBN | 9781648230370 |
Molly is a 2023 memoir written by Blake Butler and published by Archway Editions. It is a work of autobiography concerning his marriage to and subsequent suicide of the poet Molly Brodak. [1]
Blake Butler is the author of several books, including Alice Knott (Riverhead, 2020), Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia (Harper Perennial, 2011), [2] and Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2009). Prior to publication excerpts appeared in The Paris Review and Harper's . [3] [4]
Jessica Ferri in the Los Angeles Times called it "the best book I've read this year," [1] while in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , Suzanne Van Atten wrote that it is a "dark, gorgeously crafted read". [5] The Telegraph concluded that "the triumph of his book lies in its compassion. Instead of shaming Brodak, he shows respect to her trickle-down trauma. He diagnoses her – I suspect accurately – with borderline personality disorder. He tells us every awful truth about a toxic relationship. And he does it with real, unending love." [6]
Molly also drew controversy. Author Sarah Rose Etter accused Butler of exploitation, describing Molly as "literary revenge porn against a mentally unwell woman who took her own life." [7]
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