“A firecracker of a story, funny and unflinching, so engagingly written that you just fly through the pages.” NRC Handelsblad

Tobi Lakmaker discusses The History of My Sexuality, a frank, funny and exuberant coming of age debut about a young woman’s search for identity, intimacy and love.

For twentysomething protagonist Sofie Lakmaker, the history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. She assumes life can only improve from there, but she is wrong – about lots of things. Can Sofie untangle the impossible knot of sex, love, loneliness, family relationships and grief that constitutes her existence? The History of My Sexuality, translated from Dutch by Kristen Gehrman, is a funny and affecting story of chaos, experience, questioning and discovery.

Tobi Lakmaker lives in Amsterdam, and writes columns for De Groene Amsterdammer and LINDA.meiden.

Part of New Dutch Writing, supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

Duration: 1 hour