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Paradise Rot
Paradise Rot: A Novel | Jenny Hval
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A lyrical and uncompromising debut novel from a highly acclaimed musician and artist, who has achieved renown for the sharpness of her work, and its sexual and political imagery. 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.
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Taylor
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Loved this dreamworld haze of a novel about fitting in and figuring out who you are: spiritually, sexually, personality-wise.

It really digs into the subject of the body, the constant adjustment and readjustment to this flesh we are so close to but also somehow estranged from. That this novel is weird is kind of a given...but it‘s sexy too, which was a nice switch from what I generally read.

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Bertha_Mason

I found the book I'm getting my girlfriend for xmas! She loves Jenny Hval's music.

batsy And the UK Verso edition looks so pretty 6y
Bertha_Mason It does *_* 6y
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ohyeahthatgirl
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This tiny, weird book is about the narrator's burgeoning queer identity. It's strangely erotic, though it's heavy on the body..not quite horror, but body weirdness. It's all shifting boundaries and growth and decay. #weirdatlast

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ohyeahthatgirl
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Is this the most badass author photo ever?

JoScho For sure! 6y
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ohyeahthatgirl
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I found a pretty ARC at work today. It sounds like an even more feminist Annihilation. #weirdatlast

monalyisha I‘ll be interested in your review. Intriguing synopsis! 6y
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