Published in 2019
284 pages
Sarah Rose Etter is the author of Tongue Party, a short fiction collection, and The Book of X, her debut novel. The Book of X was selected as a Best Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Thrillist, Vulture, and more, and was long-listed for 2020 The Believer Book Award and the 2020 California Independent Bookseller Alliance’s Golden Poppy Award.
Her fiction, interviews, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, BOMB, Guernica, VICE, The Cut, Electric Literature, and Best Microfictions 2020, among others. She has attended writing residencies through the Disquiet International Program in Portugal and the Gullkistan Creative Residency in Iceland, where she wrote The Book of X.
What is this book about?
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.
