{"product_id":"a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing-9781566893688","title":"A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2014\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Desmond Elliott Prize, 2014\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2014\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Goldsmiths Prize, 2013\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Folio Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR's Best Books of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Notable Books of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e#3 on \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York's\u003c\/i\u003e 10 best books of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal's\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction of 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune Printers Row Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 25 Best Novels of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e Favorite Novels of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An instant classic.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It's hard to imagine another narrative that would justify this way of telling, but perhaps McBride can build another style from scratch for another style of story. That's a project for another day, when this little book is famous.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In edgy, hazy, stream-of-consciousness prose, Eimear McBride transports you directly into her narrator's mind and heart, making this experimental, award-winning novel totally unforgettable.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Girl is a Half-formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is simply a brilliant book--entirely emotionally raw and at the same time technically astounding. Her prose is as haunting and moving as music, and the love story at the heart of the novel--between a sister and brother--as true and wrenching as any in literature. This is a book about everything: family, faith, sex, home, transcendence, violence, and love. I can't recommend it highly enough.\"\u003cb\u003e--Elizabeth McCracken\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"McBride's \u003ci\u003eA Girl is a Half-formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is a game-changer, a disruptor, a grenade of a novel, and we all agreed this had to win.\"--\u003cb\u003eIsabel Berwick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"My discovery of the year was Eimear McBride's debut novel \u003ci\u003eA Girl Is a Half-formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003cb\u003eEleanor Catton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEimear McBride's acclaimed debut tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumor, touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEimear McBride\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1976 and grew up in Ireland. At twenty-seven she wrote \u003ci\u003eA Girl is a Half-formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e and spent the next nine years trying to have it published. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Perhaps no debut has been more thrilling than Eimear McBride's \u003ci\u003eGirl is a Half-formed Thing.\u003c\/i\u003e\"-- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSF Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Undoubtedly my standout read of the year, \u003ci\u003eA Girl is A Half-formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting and innovative debut.\"-- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlasgow Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Irish author Eimear McBride earned hosannas for her first novel with the very evocative 'A Girl is a Half Formed Thing'.\"-- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndian Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[McBride] reframes our expectations of prose and clarifies an urgent reality: we are all half-formed, to some degree.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Colorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEimear McBride was born in 1976 and grew up in the west of Ireland. 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