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Theyre funny, tender, and urgently told; one of them is written in rhyme.
Hearing that as a writer was really, really liberating.
Denetsosies vivid, complex Dine characters claim space in a world that often ignores their truth.
This collection is a confident storm of stories that need telling.
Im so grateful for the debut work of this blazing talent.
Megan Howell,Softie
Synopsis:A narrator lusts after her lovers earlobes.
A hotel houses a collection of lonely drifters.
People who are very much in the thick of it and cant pretend like nothing is happening.
Their lives are centered around people who hate them or situations that are just destroying them internally.
They have to be vulnerable in their stories otherwise they would be hiding their entire lives.
These are stories about people living in a world that punishes them.
Punishing is exactly how the world feels right now, exactly how I feel living in it right now.
Megan writes with a rare fearlessness and nimbleness on the page.
Her second adolescence reframes everything she thinks she knows in ways both painful and delightful.
This cheerfully genre-crossing autobiographical novel is told in rhyming couplets with some prose sections interspersed.
We want to be connected in all kinds of ways to other people.
When I started that job, it was before COVID.
I woke up at 4:30 every day.
Wrote before work, went to work.
I would come home at night and have a go at write some more.
Then COVID happened, and working from home made it a lot easier to get work done.
It was this interesting thing where it made the writing really exciting, because Igotto do it.
Having that world immortalized in print means a lot to me.
I think books are meant to heal us, but theyre also meant to break us.
Jemimahs novel doesnt really have a sense of resolution to it in a typical or traditional way.
Theres an element of transcendence to this book thats hard to come by.
