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Peach

✍ Scribed by Emma Glass

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2017;2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 53 KB
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

An immensely talented young writer' George Saunders
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__Slip the pin through the skin. Start stitching.
It doesn't sting. It does bleed. White thread turns red.
Red string. Going in. Going out. I pull. Tug.
Tug the pin. In. Out. Out. Out. Blackout.

Something has happened to Peach. It hurts to walk but she staggers home to parents that don't seem to notice. They can't keep their hands off each other and, besides, they have a new infant, sweet and wobbly as a jelly baby.

Peach must patch herself up alone so she can go to college and see her boyfriend, Green. But sleeping is hard when she is haunted by the gaping memory of a mouth, and working is hard when burning sausage fat fills her nostrils, and eating is impossible when her stomach is swollen tight as a drum.

In this dazzling debut, Emma Glass articulates the unspeakable with breath-taking clarity and verve. Intensely physical, with...

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