We Are Made of Diamond Stuff
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Author: Isabel Waidner
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, Isabel Waidner's second novel follows an unnamed narrator who looks like Eleven from Stranger Things, but is in fact a 36-year-old migrant working for minimum wage in a run-down hotel on the Isle of Wight. Along with their best friend, Shae, the narrator faces Ukip activists, shapeshifting creatures, and despotic bosses while trying to hold down their job and preparing for their Life in the UK test.Where polar bears emerge from t-shirts, where Reeboks come to life, nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal. This is fiction that extends the avant-garde tradition beyond the upper-class experience that it usually chronicles – making it over as an ally of working-class queer experience. Set against a backdrop of austerity and decline, 'We Are Made of Diamond Stuff' is an irreverent, boundary-erasing piece of work that celebrates the radical potential of resistance, ingenuity, and friendship.
ISBN 9781913512088. Peninsula Press. pb. 112 pages. 12.9 x 19.8 cm.
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Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, Isabel Waidner's second novel follows an unnamed narrator who looks like Eleven from Stranger Things, but is in fact a 36-year-old migrant working for minimum wage in a run-down hotel on the Isle of Wight. Along with their best friend, Shae, the narrator faces Ukip activists, shapeshifting creatures, and despotic bosses while trying to hold down their job and preparing for their Life in the UK test.Where polar bears emerge from t-shirts, where Reeboks come to life, nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal. This is fiction that extends the avant-garde tradition beyond the upper-class experience that it usually chronicles – making it over as an ally of working-class queer experience. Set against a backdrop of austerity and decline, 'We Are Made of Diamond Stuff' is an irreverent, boundary-erasing piece of work that celebrates the radical potential of resistance, ingenuity, and friendship.
ISBN 9781913512088. Peninsula Press. pb. 112 pages. 12.9 x 19.8 cm.
available