![]() ![]() 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. 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. “Penetrating, brutal, a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction.” -Ben Marcus, author of Notes from the Fog Popkey writes about these emotional eddies with such thrilling detachment you’ll wonder why you ever worried about love at all.” -Jenny Offill, author of Dept. ![]() Edgy, wry, and written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism, this novel introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist. “A pleasingly unsentimental novel about attraction and repulsion and the fluid line between the two. In exchanges about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage, Popkey touches upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, and guilt. Its narrator is as skeptical of her own self-delusive fictions as she is of the stifling cliches and shallow fantasies about women's interior lives perpetuated by the wider culture." -–Karen Russell, author of Orange World ![]() "An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality, a brilliantly structured character study, and a book that repeatedly asks how women can fully trust their own desires when they've grown up steeped in the wrong stories. Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel Topics of Conversation with Rachel Khong. Miranda Popkey was angry when she began writing Topics of Conversation. ![]()
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