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Product Description *Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards for Novel*The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction*The Northern California ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist*2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Longlist*A Best Book of 2019 —Vulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist "Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything.” ―Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel." ―Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties 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. Review *Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards for Novel*The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction*The Northern California ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist*2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Longlist*A Best Book of 2019 —Vulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist "There are very few good reasons to use the word oneiric in a sentence and here is one of them: It’s one of the few English adjectives appropriate to Sarah Rose Etter’s novel about a woman born with a stomach disfigurement who navigates the world (as we all do) with the trepidation and fury and occasional exultation that results from having a disappointing body."―Molly Young, Vulture, The Best Books of 2019 "Best of 2019: Best Fiction Books"―Entropy "The Best Books of 2019"―Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed "At its heart, Etter’s is a coming-of-age novel about difference, the female body, and the male gaze, but the author’s surreal imagination and laser-precise prose make for an indelible read."―James Tate Hill, Lit Hub, "5 Small Press Audiobooks To Give As Gifts This Year" "Sarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X belongs to a literary conversation about the grotesque and surreal. Shaped like a prose sculpture, her debut novel juxtaposes the surrealism of youth with the realities of capitalism; it is the story of being raised in a rural area, and disappearing into a city. Sarah Rose Etter discusses life as loose ends, not something tied up with a pretty bow, and creating a novel not in search of resolve, redemption, or everything becoming better. The Book of X has a fresh vision that makes it a strange book in strange times."―Michael Silverblatt, Bookworm on KCRW "Sarah Rose Etter's The Book of X is dizzying and grotesque―and I say that with the utmost love. It's an astute exploration of humanity and the body―specifically the female body―through the lens of young Cassie... Etter has built an eerie, surreal world... and she seduces you into it with dreamy lyricism. You won't want to leave."―Arianna Rebolini, BuzzFeed News, '29 Summer Books To Get Excited About' “In the utterly unique and remarkable The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter takes the surreal and expertly shapes it into a portrait that is as beautiful and compelling as it is horrifying and unbearable... Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything.”―Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel."―Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties "Poignantly represents the ageless trials of womanhood.
