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Baboon
Baboon | Naja Marie Aidt
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Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidts stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes them into her own desperate, frantic realm. In one, a whore shows up unannounced at a mans apartment, roosts in his living room, and then violently threatens him when he tries to make her leave. In another, a wife takes her husband to a city where it is women, not men, who are the dominant sexbut was it all a hallucination when she finds herself tied to a board and dragged back to his car? And in the unforgettable Blackcurrant, two young women who have turned away from men and toward lesbianism abscond to a farm, where they discover that their neighbors son is experimenting with his own kind of sexuality. The first book from the widely lauded Aidt to reach the English language, Baboon delivers audacious writing that careens toward bizarre, yet utterly truthful, realizations.
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The short stories in this collection all feature people whose regular day goes awry. It may be minor, it may be major, it may be infuriating and upsetting or easily forgotten. Aidt is a very well-regarded Danish author and this is the first of her books to appear in English. #intranslation #shortstories #womenintranslation

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Visited a new bookstore/bar in the city tonight & was super impressed with their small but heavily-cultivated selection. Like this recommendation, for instance? I‘m sold.👌🏻

“I read this book years ago and still think about it all the time - stories that go places you‘d never expect. You won‘t be able to put it down.” — Emma

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Gorgeous cover. Can't wait to start!