Flesh in ruins | The Daily Star
“I, itch of ink, think of thing, plucked open at her start; no bigger than a capillary, no wiser than a cantaloupe, and quite optimistic about what my life would come to look like.” The opening sentence of Maddy Mortimer’s debut novel, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, is sheer poetry—it cascades off the tongue in … [Read more…]