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What Am I, A Deer?

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

After a chance encounter with a stranger, a young woman falls down a rabbit hole of obsession, fantasy and exhilarating self-exploration.

With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Barton’s formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny.

What does it mean to lose yourself – and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of...

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