Pretend I Am Someone You Like
[Livingston, Alabama] : Livingston Press, The University of West Alabama, [2018]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 153 pages ; 23 cm
Fiction. In backwater Louisiana, young Mutty takes care of his cousin Barn, who hasn't spoken since his father was arrested. Pepper, Mutty's lover, is also haunted by a violent past. Their relationship grows spiritually and physically as the three fight off Pepper's sexual predators invading their little world full of mud, hay, and crawfish. PRETEND I AM SOMEONE YOU LIKE lovingly juxtaposes child-like phrasing into a rural world of threatened innocence.
"This is courageously strange writing that will intrigue and beguile the reader from the get-go, and it boasts a dénouement that would make Quentin Tarantino squirm...Unsettling, endearing, and brilliant."--Kirkus Reviews
"This is courageously strange writing that will intrigue and beguile the reader from the get-go, and it boasts a dénouement that would make Quentin Tarantino squirm...Unsettling, endearing, and brilliant."--Kirkus Reviews
Subjects:
Young women -- Fiction.
Mute persons -- Fiction.
Psychic trauma in children -- Fiction.
Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Louisiana -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Mute persons -- Fiction.
Psychic trauma in children -- Fiction.
Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Louisiana -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781604892109
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Dasgupta | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
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