Last Sext

In her electric fourth collection Melissa Broder penetrates the itch of existence and explores numberless deaths: the annihilation of self the bereavement of love the destruction of fantasy the transmutation even of our ideas of dying. One of the New Yorkers Books We Loved in 2016 What emerges is an infinite series of false endingseach a trap door containing the possibility for alchemy rebirth and renewal. Part elegy part confessional part battle cry Last Sext confronts both eternal longing and the mystery of mortality with language hot primal and dark as Broders fans have come to love.