What a Shame: Abigail Bergstrom

The idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been `laden with something dark` was disconcertingly unanimous.
I wondered if this was something you also saw in me, if that was why you left.

There is something wrong with Mathilda.

She`s still reeling from the blow of a gut-punch break up and grieving the death of a loved one.
But that`s not it.

She`s cried all her tears, mastered her crow pose and thrown out every last reminder of him.
But that`s not helping.

Concerned that she isn`t moving on, Mathilda`s friends push her towards a series of increasingly unorthodox remedies.
Until the seams of herself begin to come undone.

Tender, unflinching and blisteringly funny, What a Shame glitters with rage and heartbreak, and offers up the joy of self-acceptance through an extraordinary rite of passage to overcome the prickly heat of female shame.