Big of You (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Nine loosely linked stories that circle themes of striving and characters who are active and defiant in their desire for independence.

Two young women hitchhike around Europe, discovering uneasy secrets about each other. A casino worker navigates her sad-sack, unlucky life. A team in space is left reeling after a colleague’s unexpected death. A sassy millennia-old being is on display as a roadside attraction. Big of You contains stories of real and fantastical life, each with its own distinctive voice and wild vocabulary. Levine’s characters grapple with ambition, striving, performativity, and self-sabotage, including the sabotage of memory and memory loss.

At turns playful, blistering, unabashed, defiant, these stories examine striving and ambition under the spectre of late-stage capitalism while contending with the hauntings of the past. The language is turbo-charged, highly expressive, conveying a sense of letting loose. In keeping with its transgressive vocabulary, Big of You captures experiences beyond the norms of realist fiction.