The Book of X

ABOUT *Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards for Novel*The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction*The Northern California ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist*2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Longlist*A Best Book of 2019 —Vulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist "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 "Etter writes her weird world with elastic prose, as stripped-down at certain points as it is lyrical in others... a powerful novel."—Bradley Babendir, Minneapolis Star-Tribune Synopsis A surreal exploration of one woman’s life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men. 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 lo