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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798200315055
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ISBN: 9798200315079
| Runtime: | 5.00 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award
Longlisted for the Believer Book Award
Longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
A Buzzfeed Best Books of the Year Selection
A Vulture.com Pick of Best Books of the Year
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday —school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents—with the surreal—rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats—Cassie's realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Penned in succinct, poetic prose, Etter’s surreal debut is exactly as grotesque and horrifying as young adulthood.” —Booklist
“With poetic prose and haunting honesty, The Book of X cuts clean to the tangled heart of femininity, unwinding one woman’s story to reflect a familiar self.” —Foreword Reviews
“A relentlessly original look at what it means to exist in a female body.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Etter has created that rare beast: an effective, startling poetic novel. Its story is coherent and progressive; Cassie herself is intensely sympathetic. The book is unconventional but engaging, and eminently readable.” —New York Journal of Books
Author
Author Bio: Sarah Rose Etter
Sarah Rose Etter is the author of The Book of X and Tongue Party. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, Vice, Guernica, Philadelphia Weekly, and more. She is the recipient of writing residencies in Portugal and the Gullkistan Creative Program in Iceland. She earned her MFA degree from Rosemont College.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 5.00 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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