The girl who never read Noam Chomsky /

An ambitious debut, at once timely and timeless, that captures the complexity and joys of modern womanhood. This novel is gem like, in its precision, its many facets and its containing multitudes. Following in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf, Rona Jaffe, Maggie Shipstead and Sheila Heti, Jana Casale...

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Main Author: Casale, Jana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018].
Edition:First edition.
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