We are made of diamond stuff
Waidner, Isabel2022
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Polar bears emerge from t-shirts. Reeboks come to life. Nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal. In Isabel Waidner's second novel, we follow 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. 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.
Main title:
We are made of diamond stuff / Isabel Waidner.
Author:
Waidner, Isabel, author
Imprint:
London : Peninsular Press, 2022.©2021
Collation:
109 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781913512088 (pbk)9781913512088
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
515558
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | WAID | Available |