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The Book of X

Sarah Rose Etter

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The Book of X won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and was a Best Book of the Year for Vulture, Buzzfeed, Entropy, and Thrillist. 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. From the author Ripe comes a surreal exploration of one woman's life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks and bad men.

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Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Year
2024
ISBN-13
9780857309044
Genre
HorrorFiction
Topics
Body image and bodily autonomyWomanhood and gender rolesFamily and inherited traumaSurrealism and identityLove and relationships

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