Wetlands

Wetlands--an international sensation with more than a million copies sold worldwide--has been at the center of a heated debate about feminism and sexuality since its publication last spring. Charlotte Roche's controversial debut novel is the story of Helen Memel, an outspoken, sexually precocious eighteen-year-old lying in a hospital bed as she recovers from an operation. To distract herself, she ruminates on her past sexual and physical adventures in increasingly uncomfortable detail. The result is a funny, shocking, and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the compulsion to obliterate the covenant that keeps girls clean, quiet, and nice.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 01/19/2010
ISBN: 9780802144690
Pages: 229
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.90w x 0.80d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/14/2010 pg. 24