Topics of Conversation — Miranda Popkey. Jacket photograph by Maria Švarbová. Jacket design by Sinem Erkas. For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill–a compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction. Miranda Popkey’s first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt–written . · Topics of Conversation Miranda Popkey Knopf | January 7, In a pivotal chapter of Miranda Popkey’s debut novel Topics of Conversation, the unnamed narrator joins a group of women—some coworkers, all new mothers, all single—for an evening. The narrator sips wine and, suddenly appalled by how little she knows about these women and their lives before becoming . · The topics of conversation include: the rape fantasy, the ethics of procreation, Plath’s poem “Daddy” (“Every woman adores a Fascist”), and a video art exhibition on female www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
Miranda Popkey graduated with a BA in Humanities from Yale and a MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Although Topics of Conversation is her debut novel, she has written for numerous well-known publications including The New Republic, The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog, the Paris Review Daily, GQ, and New York Magazine's The Cut. Miranda Popkey's first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women—the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage—and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry. topics of conversation by Miranda Popkey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 9, An unnamed narrator navigates female identity—her own and in general—through a series of conversations that span the course of 20 years in Popkey's painfully sharp debut.
Topics of Conversation Miranda Popkey Knopf | January 7, In a pivotal chapter of Miranda Popkey’s debut novel Topics of Conversation, the unnamed narrator joins a group of women—some coworkers, all new mothers, all single—for an evening. The narrator sips wine and, suddenly appalled by how little she knows about these women and their lives before becoming mothers, she asks each to tell her story. The topics of conversation include: the rape fantasy, the ethics of procreation, Plath’s poem “Daddy” (“Every woman adores a Fascist”), and a video art exhibition on female pain. Popkey's story follows an unnamed woman over 17 years as she opens up about topics like love and infidelity, desire and power. So it's fitting her book is called "Topics Of Conversation.".
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