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David Bergen • The Matter With Morris: A Novel
He could not decide if she was beautiful in spite of her monstrosity, or because of it.
Emilia Hart • The Sirens: The highly anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of WEYWARD
Her few clothes hung austerely on a rail, and a television overlooked the foot of the bed; she watched it indiscriminately and with confusion, trying to make Bethesda’s child into an ordinary woman. And indeed she was ordinary, where certain essential matters were concerned – had not believed in hell since the day she’d laughed at the belt in her f
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Only with Africanist characters is such a project thinkable: delayed gratification for the pleasure of a (white) child.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
It was impossible to tell if they were protecting her, changing her, or breaking her body down—just as I could not know whether some version of the anthropologist had indeed appeared to the surveyor near base camp after I had left for the lighthouse …