Girls Against God Av Jenny Hval

<b>A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson.</b><br><br>Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.<br><br>Jenny Hval''s latest novel is a radical fusion of queer feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art.<br><br><b>"Strange and lyrical. Hval’s writing is surreal and rich with the grotesque banalities of human existence." —<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>"The themes of alienation, queerness, and the unsettling nature of desire align Hval with modern mainstays like Chris Kraus, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Maggie Nelson." —<i>Pitchfork</i></b>