“Weil's inquiry will companion readers seeking to recognize, reinvent or reinvigorate their life beyond the tropes and terrors of the twenty-first century.”
“Intimate, personal, visionary...”
In Search of Pure Lust takes us back to a moment in the ‘70s and ‘80s when lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a culture, a movement. The memoir also traverses a series of torrid but ultimately failed relationships—until a dive into Zen practice begins to turn things around. Donna M. Johnson has called the memoir “the most alive and embodied book I’ve read in years.” Kim Chernin: “the reader should expect to stay up all night, and for many nights, reading.”