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A surreal exploration of one woman's life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men

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.

©2019 Sarah Rose Etter (P)2019 Tantor Magical Realism Literary Fiction Family Life Coming of Age Genre Fiction Women's Fiction

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The prose in this is gorgeous despite the dark nature of the story.
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A fascinating and unusual type of horror novel with fresh surreal imagery. Magical realism expects the unexpected One of my favorite's books

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No word or sentence was filler. Everything in this book landed with such a heavy blow that I feel breathless just thinking about it.

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