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Erika Schickel

  • Book cover for "The Big Hurt: A Memoir"
    The Roundtable
    "The Big Hurt" a memoir by Erika Schickel
    Joe Donahue
    In 1982, Erika Schickel was expelled from her East Coast prep school for sleeping with a teacher. She was "that girl" — rebellious, precocious, and macking for love. Seduced, caught, and then whisked away in the night to avoid scandal, Schickel’s provocative, searing, and darkly funny memoir, "The Big Hurt," explores the question: How did that girl turn out?