{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"The Book of X","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/the-book-of-x","description":"\u0026quot;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.\u0026quot; --Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist \u0026quot;I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel.\u0026quot; --Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties A surreal exploration of one woman\u0026#39;s life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men. The Book of X 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\u0026#39;s realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.","author_name":"Sarah Rose Etter","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/sarah-rose-etter","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/59523540/72fdc1a70746c147cf18c28d56b84040c35defae.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":175}