Pond av Claire-Louise Bennett

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<b>“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … <i>Pond</i> makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”<b>–</b><i>New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –<i>O, the Oprah Magazine</i></b><br><br> Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience—from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows—rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like st