Katherine Holmsen — Sleeping with Leeches: A Memoir of Power, Seduction, and Two Years in the Borneo Forest — at Conn Ave

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For readers of Cheryl Strayed and Alexandra Fuller, this contemporary memoir—unfolding across Arizona, Bali, and the wilds of Borneo—traces a thirtysomething grad student's emotional and sexual entanglement with her renowned PhD advisor. In her mid thirties, after a tumultuous early adulthood, Katherine Holmsen jumps into a doctoral program in anthropology to finally get her life together—and somehow finds herself alone in the mountainous tropics of Indonesia, beginning fieldwork with a remote tribe of rainforest hunter gatherers. There among the Punan of Borneo, she bathes in crocodile infested rivers, joins shamanic healing rituals, and runs barefoot through the forest after her research subjects, all as she reckons with how she lost herself in relation to the man sh…

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