CONSENT, written by Jill Ciment and read by Eileen Stevens

Reflection is central to memoirs, but in CONSENT, Jill Ciment reconsiders her original writing in a second memoir, written twenty-eight years after her first, Half a Life. Eileen Stevens’s reading embraces the author’s candid questioning as she wonders, in the context of #Metoo and her husband’s death after decades of marriage, how she should interpret the relationship begun with forty-seven year-old artist Arnold Mesches when she was only seventeen. Stevens’s narration appreciates the careful detailing of scenes that give events and emotions a strong reality for their courtship and forty-five years of marriage, some of which are dismembered and re-composed with new perspectives. Stevens also evokes the author’s thoughtful scrutiny of how a writer might revisit memories, find them faulty, and come up with a very different story.Discover more about this book and audio at the purchase link below.