Essay | How to Heal the Hurt by Hating by Anita Liberty

""My boyfriend, Mitchell, whom I dated for three and a half years, left me for a woman named Heather, and, to get even, I have devoted my entire career to humiliating him in public." To find a book devoted to the humiliation of a man, from the woman who was dumped by him, is fantastic. The only result can be intense entertainment, in the vehicle of some good poems and short interludes into the process of getting over Mitchell.

In How to Heal the Hurt by Hating by Anita Liberty, it seems at first that the entire purpose of the book is to show how much Liberty dislikes her recent ex-boyfriend, and the reader is a means of humiliating Mitchell. As you continue into the book, it's quickly evident that this book has no plot. There is no central story line, except an on-going "Get-Over-Him" saga. And even this saga...
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