Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir

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Acclaimed author Margaux Fragoso explores her childhood experience with a pedophile with painful honesty. Fragoso had met Peter Curran when she was only seven and he was 51. Desperate to escape being around her mentally unstable mother and her alcoholic father, Fragoso spent increasingly more time at Curran's home. Soon, Curran would guide their relationship into sexual territory-a relationship that ended with Curran's suicide 15 years later.
Acclaimed author Margaux Fragoso explores her childhood experience with a pedophile with painful honesty. Fragoso had met Peter Curran when she was only seven and he was 51. Desperate to escape being around her mentally unstable mother and her alcoholic father, Fragoso spent increasingly more tim...

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Margaux Artemia Fragoso was born in West New York, New Jersey on April 15, 1979. When she was 7-years-old, she started being abused by a 51-year-old pedophile. The relationship lasted for 15 years until he committed suicide. She visited him regularly at his home, often chaperoned by her mother, who was mentally ill. They played games together, including one called Tiger. She received a bachelor¿s degree in English from New Jersey City University in 2002 and a master¿s degree and a doctorate in English from Binghamton University. Her memoir Tiger, Tiger was published in 2011. She died of ovarian canceron on June 23, 2017 at the age of 38.
Margaux Artemia Fragoso was born in West New York, New Jersey on April 15, 1979. When she was 7-years-old, she started being abused by a 51-year-old pedophile. The relationship lasted for 15 years until he committed suicide. She visited him regularly at his home, often chaperoned by her mother, w...

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