In this beautiful, startlingly fresh collection of memoirs, Boyer Rickel lifts the smallest moments of a life to the light, placing them side by side, patiently building a portrait of self-in-context. Rickel studies desire and childhood, and the long work of moving from loneliness into relation. Somehow both edgy and calm at once, self-possessed and fearless, Taboo is a book of hours, a book of devotions.