And then she meets Eric, a white middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. It's brutal-and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2021 Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021 Edie is just trying to survive. Interviews have been edited and condensed.‘A book of pure fineness, exceptional.’ – Diana Evans, Guardian 'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It’s where our art comes from.” We sat there for a few moments, looking at the bird.
It’s fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it.” I said, “That’s why we’re kindred spirits: We both believe in something bigger than us. She said, “In all the years that I’ve lived in this apartment, a dove has never landed there. I always equate a dove with my father visiting me. One day, we were sitting in Marina’s apartment in New York when a dove landed on the railing of her balcony. There’s also a spiritual side to us both. She didn’t just step out of her box, she screamed from the rooftops, and I think about the hate mail she must have received, the nastiness and the words used to describe her. I can’t imagine growing up with Marina’s strength in her generation. We’re both strong women, and there’s a word that’s usually used to describe strong women - a female dog. After watching Marina, I decided to try it. Imagine singing a very vocally difficult opera while crying. Before “Medea,” I’d never been willing to go that close to the fire, so to speak.
She’s given me the strength to be vulnerable and to take risks. Sondra Radvanovsky: I’ve finally gotten to the point where I don’t care if you think I’m fat or ugly, a good or bad singer, a good or bad person.
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