Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M.

Catherine Millet€s best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark book-a portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as “eloquent, graphic-and sometimes even poignant€ by Newsweek, and as “[perhaps] one of the most erotic books ever written€ by Playboy, it drew international attention for its audacity and the apparently superhuman sangfroid of Millet and her partner, Jacques Henric, with whom she had an extremely public and active open relationship. Millet€s follow-up answers the first book€s implicit question: how do you avoid jealousy? “I had love at home,€ Millet explains. “I sought only pleasure in the world outside.€ But one day she discovers a letter in their apartment that makes clear Jacques is seriously involved with someone else. Jealousy details the crisis provoked by this discovery, and Millet€s attempts to reconcile her need for freedom and sexual liberation with the very real heartache that Jacques€s infidelity causes. If The Sexual Life of Catherine M. seemed to disregard emotion, Jealousy is its radical complement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine who discovers that love, in any of its forms, can have a dark side.