Polly Barton’s Debut Novel Is an All-Consuming Exploration of Obsession

For the unnamed, young protagonist at the start of Polly Barton ’s debut novel What Am I, a Deer? , life is pretty much mapped out. As foretold during a divination session with schoolmates, she will marry a Frenchman named Bertrand, and the two of them will govern a nudist colony. Except, it doesn’t quite work out like that. Fast-forward a decade and we find her moving to Frankfurt to start a job in translation andhellip;

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