How to Be Somebody Else by Pountney, Miranda staff picks

How to Be Somebody Else by Pountney, Miranda staff picksAuthor: Pountney, Miranda Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 15 February 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 288 pages 223 x 145 x 27 400g An uncoming of age in New York CityHow to Be Somebody Else has literary oomph SUNDAY TIMESBrilliant Luscious prose ANNIE LORD, author of Notes on HeartbreakUnsettling and original TESSA HADLEY, author of Free LoveSpring 2015, New York. On the surface

she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home

the bestselling Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs has been revised and updated to include new photographers

selling videos of herself cleaning for money

Quick & easy cooking

the death of a mother or a path not taken

At a time when women are more vocal than ever about our lives

the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism

last summer's woodland sunflowers and bee balm remind us of black cherries eaten in a hurry while the yard grows in the moonlight shrinking like a salary

a sneaky snowball thrower is ruining all the fun at the Winter Fair

scepticism and downright confusion – Maggie Nelson has produced a work of profound integrity and

starring Jennifer Lawrence

and the daily trials and small pleasures of making a home