
Needlework
By: | Deirdre Sullivan |
Publisher: | Little Island Books |
Published: | February 2016 |
Pages: | 224 |
Categories: | Fiction |
Language: | English |
Available as: | Paperback |
On sale at: | littleisland.ie |
‘I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.’ Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she’s just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl’s meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect.