Under My Skin

<p><strong>I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands.</strong></p><p>The experiences absorbed through these skins too few are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia. Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy Lessing maps the growth of her consciousness her sexuality and her politics offering a rare opportunity to get under her skin and discover the forces that made her one of the most distinguished writers of our time.</p>