A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

"There’s nothing easy about Eimear McBride’s raw, brutally intense first novel, from its fractured sentences to its shattering story of the young unnamed narrator’s attempt to drown mental anguish with physical pain. This cri de coeur of a girl who is raped by her uncle while growing up with a punitively religious mother and a learning disabled brother who dies of brain cancer certainly isn’t cheerful, and it’s not for everyone. But it’s a devastating, ferociously original debut that pulls you into its vortex."

"Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing devastated me."