This new novel unpacks the highs and lows of limerence

Opening the pages of Polly Barton’s debut novel, What Am I, A Deer? , you’re greeted with a breathlessly recounted anecdote of the narrator performing Céline Dion at a school show in a gold satin nightie. With both immediacy and the cooler reflections of hindsight, Barton sets a tone that is confessional and clinical, dissecting and shameless.

This is Barton’s first novel, though she is an established translator of Japanesehellip;

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