Welcome to your first Good Book Club read of the year, Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter.
Those of you who have been with us since we started our subscription in 2022 will remember reading Sarah Rose Etter’s ‘Ripe’ when it landed. It was one of our favourite reads of that year, and as we only had a handful of members at that time it felt right to bring Etter’s arresting prose to even more readers this time around.
In fact, you could consider Book of X to be a prequel to Ripe, existing in a parallel universe where womens bodies and minds are commodities to be observed, judged, bought and sold.
The lush, lyrical prose makes this an unputdownable read that doesn’t shy away from candid descriptions unsavoury men. We hope you enjoy it – let us know what you think.