- Contemporary, Magical Realism, Fear, Fiction
Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Daisy Johnson
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Vintage, Penguin Random House, Graywolf Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781473523654
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