Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy

There's a new book I am looking forward to reading. It is Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy, by Rachel Krantz.

Krantz is a journalist and one of the founding editors of Bustle, where she served as senior features editor for three years. Her work has been featured on NPR, The Guardian, Vox, Vice, and many other outlets. She's the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Radio Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Peabody Award for her work as an investigative reporter with YR Media. She's got cred!

I like that Open is not a book about how to do polyamory. Open is a memoir, a story about a person's journey. Like all journeys I expect there will be mistakes, missteps and wrong turns. Open is on that too short list of contemporary polyamory literature that includes work by other great writers (mostly women) like Gracie X's Wide Open and Sophie Lucido Johnson's Many Love(s). I hope more titles become available and more stories are told in the small but important genre of contemporary polyamory literature.

In my opinion, the superpower of stories is how they build on the imagination of what's possible to be. That's why the genre of contemporary polyamory literature matters so much to me. Sometimes knowing who you are is contingent on knowing what it's possible to be.