Summary of Gina Frangello's Blow Your House Down

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 Although wives are responsible for initiating almost 70 percent of divorces, the percentage of breakups initiated by women and men living together without marriage is the same.

#2 The peak age of women’s attractiveness is around twenty-two or twenty-three, while the peak age of men’s attractiveness is between forty-six and fifty. Given these facts, it seems clear that A is Unfuckable.

#3 The author of a novel about a married professor who gets a terrifying medical diagnosis and goes out and begins fucking his student was pressed by an audience member to agree that the protagonist’s behavior was immoral, and she demurred by saying that she did not recommend anyone trying her protagonist’s behavior at home.

#4 The editor of an anthology, Daphne Gottlieb, wrote, There are tastes of mouths I could not have lived without, there are times I’ve pretended it was just about the sex because I couldn’t stand the way my heart was about to burst with happiness and awe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669385240

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Insights on Gina Frangello's Blow Your House Down

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Although wives are responsible for initiating almost 70 percent of divorces, the percentage of breakups initiated by women and men living together without marriage is the same.

#2

The peak age of women’s attractiveness is around twenty-two or twenty-three, while the peak age of men’s attractiveness is between forty-six and fifty. Given these facts, it seems clear that A is Unfuckable.

#3

The author of a novel about a married professor who gets a terrifying medical diagnosis and goes out and begins fucking his student was pressed by an audience member to agree that the protagonist’s behavior was immoral, and she demurred by saying that she did not recommend anyone trying her protagonist’s behavior at home.

#4

The editor of an anthology, Daphne Gottlieb, wrote, There are tastes of mouths I could not have lived without, there are times I’ve pretended it was just about the sex because I couldn’t stand the way my heart was about to burst with happiness and awe.

#5

In the state of Connecticut, where A was born and raised, six people were arrested for adultery between 1985 and 1990. While a New Haven attorney referred to the law as a dinosaur, authorities claimed they had no choice but to enforce it.

#6

In a study of three major male-authored European novels, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, and Thérèse Raquin, it was found that the protagonists were wives who committed adultery and ended in suicide. In contrast, female authors of the period did not describe and perceive adultery by women the same way.

#7

I am too old to be angry about the things that feminists are angry about. I have cheated, I have lied, I have done damage, and I have been selfish. But I have lost the arrogance of youth, and so my anger hovers in no-man’s-land.

#8

If I believe that art can save us, over and over again, then does it follow that I risk the audacity of believing that you might be the one who needs my words to save your life.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

My father recently told my mother that he is ready to die. He no longer visits us because he can’t manage the stairs. If we want to see him, we go down to his apartment. His life has become a series of fast-moving parts, and he is always on the verge of tripping.

#2

The author’s friend Emily is battling Stage IIIC ovarian cancer, and she is scared and sad.