148 pages
English language
Published July 30, 2018
Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive. Jo's sensitivity, and all her senses, become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, and dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval, presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire. A complex, poetic and strange novel about bodies, sexuality and the female gender.
Reads like a first year creative writing student read one Otessa Moshfegh book and then tried to copy it at the height of a fever. Not for me.
There's a lot of piss in this book. However much you're imagining, there's more.
Would have been a lot better without all the piss. (Yes seriously)
