TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Daisy
TI  - Everything under: a novel 
SN  - 1555978266
AV  - PR6110 .O417 J646 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Minneapolis, Minnesota, London
PB  - Graywolf Press, Jonathan Cape
KW  - Canals
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dementia
KW  - Fate and fatalism
KW  - Fear
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Languages, Secret
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Oxford (England)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Magic realist fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - This book was bought with money from the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund established in 2017 with the Canton Community Foundation by Appreciative Readers 2018
N2  - ** Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. ** 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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