ISBN: 9780593466698
Editorial: Vintage
Autor: Ohman, Jules
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 320
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Product DescriptionA coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling—a "terrific debut ... roiling with deep questions of identity and art, love, and the irrepressible need for meaning in life" (Jess Walter, bestselling author of The Cold Millions)By the time Lou turns eighteen, modeling agents across Portland have scouted her for her striking androgynous look. Lou has no interest in fashion or being in the spotlight. She prefers to take photographs, especially of Ivy, her close friend and secret crush.But when a hike ends in a tragic accident, Lou finds herself lost and ridden with guilt. Determined to find a purpose, Lou moves to New York and steps into the dizzying world of international fashion shows, haute couture, and editorial shoots. It’s a whirlwind of learning how to walk and how to command a body she’s never felt at ease in. But in the limelight, Lou begins to fear that she’s losing her identity—as an individual, as an artist, and as a person still in love with the girl she left behind.A sharply observed and intimate story of grief and healing, doubt and self-acceptance set against the hyper-image-conscious industry of modeling and high fashion, Body Grammar shines with the anxieties of finding your place in the world and the heartbreaking beauty of pursuing love.A VINTAGE ORIGINALReviewONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER: BuzzFeed • Thrillist • Electric Literature • Autostraddle • Apartment Therapy • The Lesbrary“Body Grammar is gorgeously written; it’s chic, vivid, and glittering. It’s also sticky with big truths and stinging heartaches. Jules Ohman is a real talent.”—Jami Attenberg, author of All This Could Be Yours“Ohman deftly crafts a heart-aching, healing, and clarifying journey of self-acceptance, trauma recovery, and queer love in this debut coming-of-age novel.”—Dahlia Adler, BuzzFeed“Deeply moving. . . . If you don’t find yourself rooting for Lou and Ivy all the way through, then I don’t think we can be friends, tbh.”—Corinne Sullivan, Cosmopolitan“Like a figure in a glossy magazine ad, Ohman’s debut novel is lithe and invitingly mysterious.”—Michelle Hart, Electric Literature“A terrific debut, cool and laconic on its glamorous surface, but roiling with deep questions of identity and art, love, and the irrepressible need for meaning in life. Jules Ohman is a young writer worth watching.”—Jess Walter, bestselling author of The Cold Millions“Ohman writes on bodies exquisitely, and the modeling world is fleshed out with great worldbuilding details. . . . Body Grammar does its best work in its quiet contemplations of grief and heartbreak but also in the ways it weaves gender and queerness into its narrative. . . . Never once does it feel like there’s a coming out story in Body Grammar. These are more like stories of young people coming into themselves.”—Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Autostraddle“[Body Grammar] explores grief, love, creativity, youth, and the nuanced grammar of the body through a lens of queerness and gender expansiveness. Ohman peppers the book with true-to-life detail from the wild word of runway shows and the fast-paced modeling lifestyle while still taking care to construct a complex queer bildungsroman.”—Sarah Neilson, them“Set in the gritty and fascinating world of high fashion, Body Grammar itself feels bravely unadorned, its face bare and without artifice. Ohman has a gift for articulating subtle states of mind, not just what a character is thinking, but how it feels for the thoughts to be moving through them. She lands in each moment so lightly, like a bird hovering over a branch. The result is a coming of age story that captures the terror of first love and first loss with the subtle delicacy of a watercolor. Remarkable.”—Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen“A story so captivating from start to finish that it’s difficult to believe it’s a debut. . . . Refreshing and realistic. . . . Oh
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