EAN: 9781555978266

EVERYTHING UNDER - DAISY JOHNSON KARTONIERT (TB)

An eerie  watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford  from the author
of Fen. The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel  a lexicographer by trade  knows this
better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother  wandering the canals of Oxford
and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was
a teen  abandoning her to foster care  and Gretel has tried to move on  spending her days
updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to
come rushing back. To find her  Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final 
fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them  and all
three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the
bonak. Everything and nothing at once  the bonak was Gretel's Name for the thing she feared
most. And now that she's searching for her mother  she'll have to face it. In this electrifying
reinterpretation of a classical myth  Daisy Johnson explores questions of fate and free will 
gender fluidity  and fractured family relationships. Everything Under - a debut novel whose
surreal  watery landscape will resonate with fans of Fen - is a daring  moving story that will
leave you unsettled and unstrung.

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