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Lowest Common Denominator

Lowest Common Denominator

Saisio, Pirkko
Spangenberg, Mia

Hardcover

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 1949641716
ISBN13: 9781949641714
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
For readers of Tove Jansson and Eileen Myles, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming-of-age novel by the Finlandia-prize-winning author of The Red Book of Farewells

Writing in the wake of her father's death, the narrator of Pirkko Saisio's autofictional novel (translated from Finnish by Mia Spangenberg) transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up to become a man, a young Saisio keeps trying and failing to meet the expectations of the adults around her. Writing with her trademark wit and style, each formative experience--with the Big Bad Wolf, a bikini-clad circus announcer, and Jesus Christ who has a beard like a man but a skirt and long hair like a woman--drives her further and further from her family and others. Struggling to understand her place in the world around her, it's in language that she discovers a refuge and a way to be seen at last.

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