Mammoth - Eva Baltasar Translator: Sam Taylor

Translator: Sam Taylor

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listen to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin

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Mammoth - Eva Baltasar Translator: Sam TaylorMammoths protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. Shes inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work all in pursuit of life in the raw. This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a