The Body Where I Was Born

by Guadalupe Nettel
The Body Where I Was Born
  • ISBN-13: 9781609805265
  • Author(s): Guadalupe Nettel
  • Subject: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)|modern fiction
  • Publisher: Seven Stories Press
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Publication Date: 31-07-2015
  • Format: h/b

Availability: In stock

£14.99
From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood, in which she was born with a birth defect. Her family were intent on fixing it and somehow the narrator has survived the emotional havoc she went through, however she has not emerged completely unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self, a sharp, sensitive girl keen to life's hardships. With bare language and smart humour, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching moments together to create a portrait of childhood.
About the book

From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood, in which she was born with a birth defect. Her family were intent on fixing it and somehow the narrator has survived the emotional havoc she went through, however she has not emerged completely unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self, a sharp, sensitive girl keen to life's hardships. With bare language and smart humour, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching moments together to create a portrait of childhood.

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