ARGONAUT BOOKS

A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, and painfully honest. And by the end of the night, she's shown us something radical about love, loss, and the need to belong. Reviews 'Cinematic and staggeringly beautiful, A Room Called Earth is unlike anything I've read before … if you like Jeffrey Eugenides' luminous prose and Sally Rooney's crisp insight...Read More