The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter
The Book of X, Sarah Rose Etter
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The Book of X

Author: Sarah Rose Etter

Narrator: Chloe Cannon

Unabridged: 4 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/13/2019

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Fantasy


Synopsis

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.

About Sarah Rose Etter

Sarah Rose Etter is the author of The Book of X and Tongue Party. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cut, Electric Literature, VICE, Guernica, Philadelphia Weekly, and more. She is the recipient of writing residencies at the Disquiet International Program in Portugal and the Gullkistan Creative Program in Iceland. She earned her MFA from Rosemont College. She lives in San Francisco.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane on March 12, 2019

There is a quarry made of meat, marbled rich with fat. There is a family who lives at the meat quarry’s edge. There is a girl who lives with a knotted body, as does her mother, as does her mother’s mother. There is a girl who yearns to be seen with kind eyes, to be touched with soft hands, to be lov......more

Goodreads review by Lark on January 11, 2023

Perfection of a kind. A musky odor emanates from every sentence, and each word seems meticulously chosen to evoke, mm, something like sanguinarian, or even coprophilic pleasure. This is ruthless, relentless, and visionary writing. The story could well mean more than its superficial meanings, I'm ope......more

Goodreads review by Mia on September 04, 2019

yorgos lanthimos film adaptation WHEN......more

Goodreads review by Quirine on September 24, 2023

The writing was insanely good in this one, but I wasn’t really in the right mindset for such a bleak story......more