num_pages: 400
description: For fans of Chemistry and Normal People: A mesmerizing and witty debut novel about a young woman growing up between two disparate cultures and the singular identity she finds along the wayBut where are you really from? When your mother considers another country home its hard to know where you belong. When the people you live among cant pronounce your name its hard to know exactly who you are. And when your body no longer feels like your own its hard to understand your place in the world. In Stubborn Archivist a young British Brazilian woman from South London navigates growing up between two cultures and into a fuller understanding of her body relying on signposts such as history family conversation and the eyes of the women who have shaped herher mother grandmother and aunt. Our stubborn archivist takes us through first love and loss losing and finding home trauma and healing and various awakenings of sexuality and identity. Shot through the novel are the narrator's trips to Brazil sometimes alone often with family where she accesses a different side of herselfone she begins to realize that is as much of who she is as anything else. A hypnotic and bold debut Stubborn Archivist is as singular as its narrator; a novel you won't soon forget. 
language: English
title: Stubborn Archivist
publisher: Mariner