Sadie X

An anti-bildungsroman, about the undoing and unlearning of the self.
A singular and highly original book about knowledge as desire, drive, and experience.
With unsettling, brilliant writing, original and inventive plot and form, Sadie X is Benjamin Labatut meets Virginie Despentes.
A demanding, exacting, and ultimately rewarding read; it requires a lot of its reader with writing that is cerebral, poetic, and precise, but also sensual and humorous.
Not a book about a pandemic, not even an epidemic. But living through the coronavirus and listening to the discourse about the virus as an ultimate enemy made the author curious about its life form and our relationship as humans to creatures that present as radically different life forms.