Nine books for a feral girl summer

Beth Kanter is a writer with more than 20 years of experience working for national magazines and newspapers. Her essays, features, humor pieces, and reported stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Paste, The Writer, Shape, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, Business Insider, Parents, Kveller, and Curbed.

At Provoked by Susan, Kanter tagged nine "loud, messy, sexy, wild, and unhinged ... books [that] tingle in all the right places: the brain, the body, and the memory." One title on the list:

Animal Instinct by Amy Shearn

Pandemic. Divorce. Midlife horniness. Sexual exploration. Intimacy. Welcome to Amy Shearn’s wildly smart, honest, and totally unfiltered tale of a woman who creates an AI lover to avoid bad dates. And maybe also to avoid herself.

Read about another book on the list.

Animal Instinct is among the Guardian's twenty top authors' summer reading list and Liz Doupnik's thirteen top books about breakups.

The Page 69 Test: Animal Instinct.

My Book, The Movie: Animal Instinct.

--Marshal Zeringue