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A “startlingly original” novel of “recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make” (Alexander Chee,
Paris Review
).
Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind—speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York.
In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment: the joys and claustrophobia of their remote life; her fears and uncertainties about motherhood; the painfully awkward faculty dinners; her feelings of loneliness and failure; and her growing fascination with Celeste, a mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelgänger who becomes an obsession for Alma.
A fable both blistering and surreal,
The Shame
is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking debut about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.
Honors for
:
A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020
A Literary Hub Recommended Read for August 2020
A Bustle "Most Anticipated Book of August 2020"
A
Harvard Review
Favorite Book of 2020, Selected by Miciah Bay Gault
White Review
Recommended Read of 2020
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020
Paris Review
).
Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind—speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York.
In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment: the joys and claustrophobia of their remote life; her fears and uncertainties about motherhood; the painfully awkward faculty dinners; her feelings of loneliness and failure; and her growing fascination with Celeste, a mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelgänger who becomes an obsession for Alma.
A fable both blistering and surreal,
The Shame
is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking debut about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.
Honors for
:
A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020
A Literary Hub Recommended Read for August 2020
A Bustle "Most Anticipated Book of August 2020"
A
Harvard Review
Favorite Book of 2020, Selected by Miciah Bay Gault
White Review
Recommended Read of 2020
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020
A “startlingly original” novel of “recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make” (Alexander Chee,
Paris Review
).
Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind—speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York.
In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment: the joys and claustrophobia of their remote life; her fears and uncertainties about motherhood; the painfully awkward faculty dinners; her feelings of loneliness and failure; and her growing fascination with Celeste, a mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelgänger who becomes an obsession for Alma.
A fable both blistering and surreal,
The Shame
is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking debut about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.
Honors for
:
A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020
A Literary Hub Recommended Read for August 2020
A Bustle "Most Anticipated Book of August 2020"
A
Harvard Review
Favorite Book of 2020, Selected by Miciah Bay Gault
White Review
Recommended Read of 2020
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020
Paris Review
).
Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind—speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York.
In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment: the joys and claustrophobia of their remote life; her fears and uncertainties about motherhood; the painfully awkward faculty dinners; her feelings of loneliness and failure; and her growing fascination with Celeste, a mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelgänger who becomes an obsession for Alma.
A fable both blistering and surreal,
The Shame
is a propulsive, funny, and thought-provoking debut about a woman in isolation, whose mind—fueled by capitalism, motherhood, and the search for meaningful art—attempts to betray her.
Honors for
:
A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020
A Literary Hub Recommended Read for August 2020
A Bustle "Most Anticipated Book of August 2020"
A
Harvard Review
Favorite Book of 2020, Selected by Miciah Bay Gault
White Review
Recommended Read of 2020
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020
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