{ "item_title" : "The Book of X", "item_author" : [" Sarah Rose Etter "], "item_description" : "*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, ThrillistEtter 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 FeministI loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel. --Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesA 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 love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday -- school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents -- with the surreal -- rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats -- Cassie's realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/93/751/281/1937512819_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "17.99", "online_price" : "17.99", "our_price" : "17.99", "club_price" : "17.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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