Date Of Review: January 3, 2024
Review Left On GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5984421840
Paradise Rot
Author: Jenny Hval
Narrator: Brie Jackman
Translated By: Marjim Idriss
Started: January 3, 2023
Finished:
Genre: horror, queer, lgbtq+
Length: 3 hours
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book: audiobook
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39216527-paradise-rot
Review:
I don't know what I just read. I get some of it. Trying to figure out yourself... but, what did I just read? It sounds like a book about how someone slowly dying from mold & poisonous mushrooms. What did I just read? It's 3 hours I won't get back though.
Goodreads Description:
Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive. Jo’s sensitivity, and all her senses, become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, and dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.
This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval, presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire. A complex, poetic and strange novel about bodies, sexuality and the female gender.