Pretend I'm Dead

Informationen zum Autor Jen Beagin  holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, and has published stories in  Juked  and  Faultline , among other journals and literary magazines. In 2017, she was awarded a prestigious Whiting Award for her debut novel  Pretend I'm Dead . She lives in New York. Klappentext At twenty-three years old, Mona is emotionally adrift. Alongside her job as a cleaner she hands out clean needles to drug addicts, until she falls for a recipient who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways. Mona escapes to Taos, New Mexico for a new start, making friends with a number of other seekers and cast-offs who all have something to teach her in their own way. And although things seem to be on the up for Mona, her memories of growing up in a chaotic, dysfunctional family lurk just beneath the surface, reminding her of the past she has been so desperately trying to leave behind. Pretend I'm Dead is a wonderfully strange, bold and utterly human debut by a stunningly one-of-a-kind new voice in American fiction. Zusammenfassung Mary Karr meets Miranda July in this hilarious debut about a young woman's quest for self-acceptance and belonging

Product details

• Authors: Jen Beagin, Beagin Jen
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781786074294
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-429-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 222 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, memory, FICTION / General, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction & related items, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Social & cultural history, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense, Trauma & shock, Women's health, FICTION / World Literature / Mexico, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary