Anakana Schofield

Advance praise for Martin John: "Profane, strange, hilarious, and necessary, Martin John is a beguiling triumph."—Patrick deWitt, author ofThe Sisters Brothers "This is literature serving its most essential function: illuminating the darkest recesses; dragging the unspoken and suppressed to the foreground . . . throwing light across the blackest of humanity's vistas. This is writing at its most fearless: visceral and searing, yet textured and nuanced; the darkest of comedy and the deepest of insight."—Donal Ryan, author ofThe Thing About December and The Spinning Heart "This is a very moving and terrific book."—Daniel Handler Martin John is not keen on P words. He isolates P words from the newspapers into long lists. For you, so you know he's kept busy, so you don't have to worry he might be beside you or following you or thinking about your body parts. So you don't have to worry about what else he has been thinking about. From Ananaka Schofield, the brilliant and unconventional author of Malarky, comes a dark and uncomfortable novel circuiting through the minds, motivations, and preoccupations of a character many women have experienced, but few up until now, have understood quite so well. The result confirms Schofield as one of the bravest and most innovative authors at work in English today. Anakana Schofield is an Irish-born writer, who won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her debut novelMalarky.

Martin John

Emma Hak-Kovacs

The big struggle is time. Where is time and where was time and how has he lost it? Where did the time go in the places he does not remember being? Where was he at the times he cannot account for? What was he doing? Tell it to them slowly.

It was hard to credit that harm could be done when you liked it.

It was hard credit why something you liked could be harmful. Harm was done.

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