Synopsis
Driven by curiosity and possibility, writer Bella Pollen has always maintained a double life, navigating between a fierce love of family and the yearning for escape until one day, a strange encounter changes everything . . .
What does it take to work out who you really are and where you truly belong? From mafia-in-laws to fashion failures to neighbours from...
Details
17 May 2018336 pages
9781509828982Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Bella Pollen creates magicVanity Fair
A writer you need to readA. A. Gill
Pollen captivatingly mixes graphics with prose to tell of her upbringing, swinging back and forth between binaries (transatlantic homes, riches-to-rags love affairs). Think Eat, Pray, Love - finding yourself, laughing, and taking what you need even when it's not what you wanted - only coolerMarie Claire
Frequently disturbing, often very funny. Pollen has a gift for playing with her readers, teasing them, shocking them, having fun with their assumptions before shaking them out of their complacency to reveal underlying and often very moving profundities. The intimacy of Pollen’s prose invites inclusion into the most private conversations she has with herself, her self-mocking humour rippling through . . . unforgettable.Daily Telegraph
