BEHIND THE GLASS, EVERYTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL On the Santa Cruz waterfront, every house is as perfect as the people inside. Not so for Mitty and Bethel, the oddball pair in the dilapidated bungalow - they are the last vestiges of a town now housing the tech elite. But Mitty is about to cross the threshold. Someone has arrived next door who finally wants to know this forgotten girl. Lena is different and she knows it. Reliant on her entrepreneur boyfriend Sebastian, her life is oddly limited for someone bathed in wealth. But when she sees Mitty, Lena begins to recognize a part of herself she has yet to face, something anxious, something broken - something real. And in this salt-blasted town, friendship will bleed into obsession, minds and bodies will betray, and the past will come back with a howl and a bite. Thrilling, seductive and prescient, WHOEVER YOU ARE HONEY is a blazing debut that dissects perfection, examines how women are made and explodes the intersection of passion, technology, and power.
Olivia Gatwood Reihenfolge der Bücher
Olivia Gatwood ist eine landesweit anerkannte Dichterin, Performerin und Pädagogin, deren Werk auf nationalen Tourneen Anklang findet. Ihre unverwechselbare poetische Stimme, die oft auf Plattformen wie HBO und in Publikationen wie dem Muzzle Magazine präsentiert wird, befasst sich mit tiefgründigen Themen in einem einzigartigen Stil. Gatwood hat sich als bedeutende Figur der zeitgenössischen Poesie etabliert, nachdem sie in mehreren angesehenen Slam-Wettbewerben im Finale stand. Ihr literarischer Ansatz, geprägt durch ihr Studium der Fiktion, verleiht ihrer Poesie eine besondere erzählerische Kraft und emotionale Tiefe.



- 2024
- 2019
Life of the Party
- 128 Seiten
- 5 Lesestunden
A dazzling collection of raw and explosive poems from a thrilling new feminist voice. In this multi-faceted collection of odes, anecdotes, sonnets and prose, Olivia Gatwood weaves together the trials and triumphs of growing up and explores the many ways that fear and violence can be internalized in a woman's psyche. At times blistering and riotous, at times soulful and exuberant, Life of the Party is about what it means to be a girl and a woman in today's world and the challenge of briefly being both. In powerful, piercingly candid language, Gatwood asks: How does one grow from a girl to a woman in a world wracked by violence? What happens to our bodies that make us who we are? Is this fear really irrational?
- 2017
New American Best Friend
- 60 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.