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Little scratch : a novel / Rebecca Watson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]Edition: First American editionDescription: 202 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780385545761
  • 0385545762
  • 9781984899217
  • 198489921X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "An experimental novel that reveals one young woman's every thought over the course of twenty-four hours"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But underneath this monotony there's something else going on: something under her skin. The narrator becomes increasingly anxious as the day moves on: Is she overusing the heart emoji? Isn't drinking eight glasses of water a day supposed to fix everything? Why is the etiquette of the women's bathroom so fraught? How does she define rape? And why can't she stop scratching? -- adapted from jacket
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction WATSON, REBECCA Available 33111010604987
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Extraordinary"-- THE NEW YORKER

In the formally innovative tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks , Newburyport comes a dazzlingly original, shot-in-the-arm of a debut that reveals a young woman's every thought over the course of one deceptively ordinary day.

She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But underneath this monotony there's something else going on: something under her skin.

Relayed in interweaving columns that chart the feedback loop of memory, the senses, and modern distractions with wit and precision, our narrator becomes increasingly anxious as the day moves on: Is she overusing the heart emoji? Isn't drinking eight glasses of water a day supposed to fix everything? Why is the etiquette of the women's bathroom so fraught? How does she define rape? And why can't she stop scratching?

Fiercely moving and slyly profound, little scratch is a defiantly playful look at how our minds function in--and survive--the darkest moments.

"An experimental novel that reveals one young woman's every thought over the course of twenty-four hours"-- Provided by publisher.

She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But underneath this monotony there's something else going on: something under her skin. The narrator becomes increasingly anxious as the day moves on: Is she overusing the heart emoji? Isn't drinking eight glasses of water a day supposed to fix everything? Why is the etiquette of the women's bathroom so fraught? How does she define rape? And why can't she stop scratching? -- adapted from jacket

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