Sarah Rose Etter (Book order)

Sarah Rose Etter Book order

Sarah Rose Etter crafts fiction that delves into the undercurrents of contemporary existence, exploring the pervasive feelings of isolation and the deep-seated yearning for connection. Her prose is characterized by a raw, often unsettling honesty that lays bare the intimate and ambiguous landscapes of the human psyche. Etter interrogates themes of identity, embodiment, and the search for meaning within a fragmented world. Her style is both minimalist and evocative, leaving a potent, lingering impression on the reader.

The Book of X

284 pages
10 hours of reading

4.1(3395)Add rating

"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 "I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties 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.