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Untamed

Untamed

by Glennon Doyle

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Doyle opens with a caged cheetah and builds outward from that image into a full-throated argument for self-trust over social conditioning. The prose is confessional and punchy — short sentences, bold declarations, personal crisis rendered as universal parable. It works best when Doyle is specific: her marriage unravelling, her faith fracturing, the precise texture of her addiction. It strains when the epiphanies arrive too cleanly. This is a book for anyone who has performed a life rather than lived one — and who is ready, finally, to find that distinction unbearable.

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"Doyle is relentless and a little overwhelming and completely sincere. This book will make you think about what you've agreed to without knowing it."

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Permission Slips and Loud Truths

Untamed is not a quiet book — it arrives like a door swinging open in a room you didn't know was suffocating you. Glennon Doyle writes the way she apparently lives: with the volume up, the contradictions visible, and a stubborn refusal to be palatable when honesty would serve better. In this brief, we look at how a memoir became a cultural phenomenon not by being perfect, but by being unapologetically, sometimes uncomfortably, real — and why readers keep pressing it into the hands of women they love.


Book Details

Publisher
Random House Large Print
Published
January 1, 2020
Pages
352
Language
English

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