Porcupines

It''s 1990: the world has opened up again after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Szonja Imre travels from Hungary to visit her older sister in LA, an eighteen-year-old in search of adventure in the ''land of the free''. What she doesn''t expect is the discovery that Rina, the sister she''s always idolised, has become an orthodox Jewish housewife and mother of two. To Szonja''s horrified teenage eyes, Rina''s life seems more restricted than the one she left behind in Budapest. Ten years later in the suburbs of LA, Sonia, unconventional and offbeat as ever, rails against the confines of When Mila stumbles upon emails between Sonia and an unknown man, her curiosity sets in motion a chain of events that will cause their carefully constructed lives to implode. Wonderfully funny and brilliantly observed, this is an irresistible debut about mothers and daughters, loneliness and belonging, the things we carry with us, and those we leave behind.

About the author

Fran Fabriczki was born in Budapest. She has lived in Los Angeles and currently lives in London. She read English at the University of Cambridge and worked in publishing for several years before going freelance to focus on her own writing. She graduated from the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA in 2022 and received the Curtis Brown Award for her dissertation. Porcupines is her upcoming debut novel.

Product details

• Authors: Fran Fabriczki
• Publisher: Fig Tree
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 14.04.2026
• EAN: 9780241741689
• ISBN: 978-0-241-74168-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Budapest, Los Angeles, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1990 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Immigration, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family saga / generational saga fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family