Topics of Conversation

For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill—a compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction

Miranda Popkey's first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt—written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women—the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage—and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Edgy, wry, shot through with rage and despair, Topics of Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.

Pentru cititorii Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis si Jenny Offill - un tur de forta compact despre sex, violenta si ura de sine de la o noua voce feroca cu talent in fictiune. Primul roman al Miranda Popkey este despre dorinta, dezgust, maternitate, singuratate, arta, durere, feminism, furie, invidie, vinovatie - scrise intr-un limbaj care sfasie cu inteligenta si erotism.