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The Crustacean: The Spiky Revenge Narrative from Lolita's Perspective
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ISBN10: 1840919116
ISBN13: 9781840919110
Publisher: Brazen
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 160
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781840919110
Publisher: Brazen
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 160
Language: English
For fans of My Dark Vanessa and Acts of Desperation, THE CRUSTACEAN is a Korean high schooler's response to Lolita THE CRUSTACEAN isn't a novel, it's an obsession . . . I would kill and die for this book ALISSA NUTTING, author of TAMPA MY DARK VANESSA meets EARTHLINGS. A truly unique gut-punch of a read Alice Slater, author of DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER When I was 13 I knew nothing about anything.
I only cared about love.
And the older man, who I thought I fell in love with, never told me he was divorced.
I made that up on my own. Chichirim is an ordinary, misunderstood, lonely schoolgirl. She's also in possession of a terrible secret. Her dad is worse than useless. And her mum spends all her days tattooing thick ugly eyebrows on old women. Her sister hates them so much she wishes they were dead. Chichirim does bad things at school. And still, no one cares. Until, one day, an older man picks her up on the side of the road.
He tells her she is pretty.
Her tells her what to do. Underneath her hard outer shell, her softness is being exploited and destroyed by the people she trusts the most. I want to come back as a crab. A crab's skin is made of bone and the flesh is inside the bone. But we're the opposite. We have bone inside flesh. THE CRUSTACEAN is an intricately crafted novella exploring memory, exploitation, and the lasting effects of adult abuse and betrayal, for readers of MY DARK VANESSA and TAMPA.
And the older man, who I thought I fell in love with, never told me he was divorced.
I made that up on my own. Chichirim is an ordinary, misunderstood, lonely schoolgirl. She's also in possession of a terrible secret. Her dad is worse than useless. And her mum spends all her days tattooing thick ugly eyebrows on old women. Her sister hates them so much she wishes they were dead. Chichirim does bad things at school. And still, no one cares. Until, one day, an older man picks her up on the side of the road.
He tells her she is pretty.
Her tells her what to do. Underneath her hard outer shell, her softness is being exploited and destroyed by the people she trusts the most. I want to come back as a crab. A crab's skin is made of bone and the flesh is inside the bone. But we're the opposite. We have bone inside flesh. THE CRUSTACEAN is an intricately crafted novella exploring memory, exploitation, and the lasting effects of adult abuse and betrayal, for readers of MY DARK VANESSA and TAMPA.
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