The Book of X

I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel -- Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties
The Book of X traverses the mundane and the surreal - from grocery lists to blooming meat, menstrual blood to a jealousy removal shop - laying bare the absurdities of womanhood. A truly original writer, Etter continues to push the boundaries of her imagination... and ours -- Melissa Broder, author of Death Valley
Utterly unique and remarkable... Sarah Rose Etter takes the surreal and expertly shapes it into a portrait that is as beautiful and compelling as it is horrifying and unbearable... 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
There are very few good reasons to use the word oneiric in a sentence and here is one of them: It's one of the few English adjectives appropriate to Sarah Rose Etter's novel about a woman born with a stomach disfigurement who navigates the world (as we all do) with the trepidation and fury and occasional exultation that results from having a disappointing body * Vulture (Best Books of 2019) *
Dizzying and grotesque... Etter has built an eerie, surreal world... and she seduces you into it with dreamy lyricism. You won't want to leave * Buzzfeed (Best Books of 2019) *