![]() The novel’s nameless narrator describes a life emotionally terrorized by two separate traumatic ordeals: her older brother’s struggle with a brain tumor, which first develops when he is two years old, goes into remission, and then returns when he is in his early twenties and her own sexual molestation at the hands of her uncle-in-law at age thirteen. This success is all the more surprising given the challenges Eimear McBride’s work presents to its readers. It has received near-unanimous praise from British reviewers, turning its author into something of a literary celebrity. It comes with a formidable backstory: after nine years of rejections, it was published by a tiny and new publishing house in England, and in the space of just a few months, started winning prize after prize. ![]() The Irish novelist Eimear McBride’s debut A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is now being released in the US. ![]()
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