Chrysalis

Included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society by controlling her body and mind in extreme ways. It was hard to be in the present, she said, but if her body were heavier and more in control, then her thoughts would clear and her mind would recover its power. An enigmatic young woman drastically transforms her body, working to become bigger, stronger, and stiller in the wake of a tr...