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The Book of X

Written by: Sarah Rose Etter
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
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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 Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Women's Fiction
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A beautiful exploration of women and the complexities they present at society's treatment of them. Weirdly uplifting as well. The prose is beautifully written. It is deeply relatable.

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