Everything under: a novel
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** Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. ** The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel's name for the thing she feared most. And now that she's searching for her mother, she'll have to face it. In this electrifying reinterpretation of a classical myth, Daisy Johnson explores questions of fate and free will, gender fluidity, and fractured family relationships. Everything Under--a debut novel whose surreal, watery landscape will resonate with fans of Fenis a daring, moving story that will leave you unsettled and unstrung.
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Subjects
Booker Prize shortlist, 2018
Canals
Canals -- Fiction
Dementia
Dementia -- Fiction
Fate and fatalism
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
Fear
Fear -- Fiction
Gender identity
Gender identity -- Fiction
Languages, Secret
Languages, Secret -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Oxford (England) -- Fiction
Canals
Canals -- Fiction
Dementia
Dementia -- Fiction
Fate and fatalism
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
Fear
Fear -- Fiction
Gender identity
Gender identity -- Fiction
Languages, Secret
Languages, Secret -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Oxford (England) -- Fiction
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9781555978266
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Grouping Title | everything under |
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subject_facet | Booker Prize shortlist, 2018 Canals -- Fiction Dementia -- Fiction Fate and fatalism -- Fiction Fear -- Fiction Gender identity -- Fiction Languages, Secret -- Fiction Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Oxford (England) -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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title_full | Everything under : a novel / Daisy Johnson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Everything under | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | a novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Booker Prize shortlist, 2018 Canals Dementia Fate and fatalism Fear Gender identity Languages, Secret Mothers and daughters |