![]() ![]() “Jochems’ debut is witty and unique … A promising new voice.” Baby is a novel of close-quarters living: of masticating mouths and human stink of piss and vomit, sunburn and bruises, pimples and dandruff of new fat expanding under the skin. What Jochems adds is a cloying grotesqueness. There’s a dollop, too, of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley a dash of Lord of the Flies. “Cynthia, the simpering, scheming, covetous emotional sinkhole of New Zealander Annaleese Jochems’s assured debut novel, Baby, is alive and squirming a memorable addition to the growing coteries of unapologetic antiheroines (dis)gracing the pages of contemporary fiction…There are echoes here of Megan Abbott, Emma Cline, Zoë Heller and Miranda July: writers drawn to the intricacies and ferocious possibilities of female friendship. Eleanor Catton, author of Man Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries ![]() ![]() Heavenly Creatures for a new generation.” “Sultry, sinister, hilarious and demented, Baby blazes with intelligence and murderous black humor. ![]()
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