Description
In a near-future pastoral world, a forty-nine-year-old livestock veterinarian looks back on a “headstrong summer” when his obsession with a fourteen-year-old girl—his so-called “chosen one”—began to blur the line between devotion and control. As the girl dreams of escape from her village and the weight of her father’s authority, the narrator’s language turns increasingly tender, then increasingly coercive, revealing how a rescuer can become a predator. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s novel is a ferociously unsettling study of grooming, power, and self-justification, where desire is narrated with lyrical intensity even as it exposes its own violence. With its pages-long, swelling sentences and morally charged intimacy, the book interrogates faith, fate, and the stories people tell to make harm feel inevitable.
Available Editions
paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Jan 1, 2024
298 pages
ISBN: 9781644452745
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Details
First Published
2023
Language
eng
Translation
From: nld
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for My Heavenly Favorite by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld.