Peach
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SELECTED BY THE INDEPENDENT AND THE OBSERVER AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
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'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature ' - George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize
'Poetic' - Independent
'The language is scintillating, the emotional heft remarkable' - Observer
'Daring' - Sunday Times
'Ferocious, startling, all-consuming' - Daisy Johnson, author of Fen
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Peach is a teenage girl like any other. She has college, and her friends, and her parents and the new baby, and her gorgeous boyfriend Green. She has her friend Sandy, and Sid the cat, and homework to do.
But something has happened – something unspeakable – and her world has become unfamiliar, fractured into strange textures and patterns. Reeling through her refracted universe, Peach knows that the people she loves are in danger, real danger. If she is not to be swallowed whole, Peach must summon all her courage and dig deep into something nameless and strange that lies within her.
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'Powerfully felt, sinister, vivid' - Literary Review
'This is a book to be devoured in a single sitting. Glass is an exciting new author to know' - Vogue
'An impressive achievement' - Big Issue
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Glass's fierce and mesmerizing debut straddles the line between fable and novel as it chronicles the effects of a sexual assault on a young woman by a depraved stranger named Lincoln. The book opens with teenage Peach walking home after the attack, battered and bruised. The lingering smells, sounds, and taste of the event are evoked in vivid detail: "charcoal breath," "burnt flesh," "crack crackly crackling" blood. Peach tells no one about what happened to her neither her boyfriend, Green, nor her oversexed parents and instead stitches her wounds up in the bath using a thread and sewing needle. In subsequent days, nightmares, hallucinations, and fear creep in alongside the evocative scent of roasting sausage and eerie sightings of Lincoln lurking in the woods near Peach's school. Peach relishes the comfort of Green's generous embrace while trying to ignore the psychological, emotional, and physical changes roiling within her. These surprisingly tender moments between Green and Peach offer respite from an otherwise challenging story as it leads up to its unforgettable twist ending. Making full use of metaphor, alliteration, and wordplay, Glass's remarkable prose stretches the boundaries of storytelling throughout, adding depth and strange beauty to this vital novel.
