{"product_id":"the-book-of-x","title":"The Book of X","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards for Novel\u003cbr\u003e*\u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction\u003cbr\u003e*The Northern California 'Golden Poppy' Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist\u003cbr\u003e*2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Longlist\u003cbr\u003e*A Best Book of 2019 --\u003cem\u003eVulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel.\" --Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003cem\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA surreal exploration of one woman's life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book of X\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Sarah Rose Etter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44442358251756,"sku":"9781937512811","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781937512811.jpg?v=1720686704","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/the-book-of-x","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}