The Lotus Eaters

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Since childhood, Emily Clements sense of self had always been shaped by the opinions of others and the need to be liked.

When a stand-off with her best friend sees nineteen-year-old Emily stranded in Vietnam, she is alone for the first timeand adrift in a new environment. With seemingly nothing to lose, she makes the biggest decision of her life to stay. But Emily'sattempts to bridge a yawning loneliness spur adownward spiral of recklessness, asshehurtlesfrom one sexual encounter to the next. It will take a trulyterrifyingexperience for her to understand that sex is both a weapon and a wound in her battle for self-worth and empowerment.

Delicately interweaving past and present,The Lotus Eatersis a sharply written story ofself-redemptionfrom an exciting young voice in Australian memoir that dissects the patterns of blame and shame women can form around their bodiesand relationships.

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Emily Clements is a 27-year-old writer based in Melbourne. Her nonfiction has been shortlisted for the Feminartsy Memoir Prize, the Ada Cambridge Prize and highly commended in the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Her fiction has been twice shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize and earned the Melbourne Young Writers Award. She is a former editor for Voiceworks and Visible Ink. The Lotus Eaters is her first book.