Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Book of X
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
11 posts | 11 read | 17 to read
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.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
sakeriver
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
post image

Next (a reread)

review
AbstractMonica
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
Pickpick

Cassie is born with a generational deformity. This novel takes you through different stages of her life, and how she navigates relationships (platonic, familial, romantic and more). This novel is lyrical and dour. It alternates from personal occurrences to visions that seem like coping mechanisms or longings.
It was a fast, interesting read. The glum tone may not be for everyone.

blurb
AbstractMonica
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
post image

Borrowed from a friend.

review
Angitron
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
post image
Mehso-so

Despite all of the positive reviews, this one did absolutely nothing for me. I felt very disconnected from the main character and never quite developed a bond with her or her story. Between a so-so and a pan for me.

blurb
decembersveryown
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
post image

About to begin this book which I‘ve been meaning to get to for the longest time!

Calming my heart, taking deep breaths.

Sometimes highly anticipated books do that to you, am I right? 😊🤓

SarahHarts_books So true!! I get very excited when I finally get to sit down and read a book I've been waiting a long to for. It's like Christmas morning! Lol 😆 5y
decembersveryown @SarahHarts_books haha exactly! What a glorious feeling to behold when talking about books! 😇 5y
3 likes2 comments
review
sakeriver
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
Pickpick

‪Surreal, grotesque, gripping—this was a hell of a book. Often I found myself unsure whether I wanted to laugh or cry or both. I have been shaken by this book. Going to need to spend some time thinking about it.‬

blurb
sakeriver
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
post image

Next

review
Bookalong
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
post image
Pickpick

5/5🌟
READ - THIS - BOOK! Seriously if you read anything for the rest of the summer let it be this! I love love loved it so much! It was so different from anything I have read....ever! Such an wonderful, perceptive look at the female experience. The narrative is so powerful and her prose are beautiful. The imagery she creates with her words blew me away. Reminiscent of Carmen Maria Machado, Samantha Schweblin's work.
#bookreview #bookstagram

14 likes3 stack adds
review
ReadingEnvy
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
post image
Pickpick

Cassie is born with a knot, just like her mother and grandmother. She enters a world of bullying, inadequate medical care, isolation and boredom. Outside of school her life seems intended for repetition of pain and cleaning the walls with lemons, while her father and brother work in the meat quarry, but her life is vivid with visions that provide some form of escape, although it isn't always positive. ⤵️

ReadingEnvy (It's fascinating to read interviews with the author because she was incredibly isolated in Iceland while writing most of this. The landscape feels unworldly in that way that only Iceland can.)

The cover is striking. When I saw it online I thought it was sunset in a valley, then I realized it's hair and a woman in the center, but now that I've read it I realize it is both and also probably the meat quarry.
5y
ReadingEnvy The feeling of the novel kept making me think of Kassandra and the Wolf by Margarita Karapanou, mixed with The Yellow Wallpaper. 5y
52 likes4 stack adds2 comments
blurb
twodollarradio
The Book of X | Sarah Rose Etter
post image

?Coming July 2019?
"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 ?

3 likes1 stack add