The Book of X

*Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards for Novel*The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction*The Northern California 'Golden Poppy' Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist*2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Longlist*A Best Book of 2019 Vulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist

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 Bad Feminist

I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel. Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties

A surreal exploration of one woman'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...