num_pages: 148
description: A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imageryJo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls a roommate with no boundaries and a home that seems ever more alive. Jos sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught as the lines between bodies and plants and dreaming and wakefulness blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire. A complex poetic and strange novel about bodies sexuality and the female gender.
language: English
title: Paradise Rot
publisher: Verso