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    In Concrete
    In Concrete
    In Concrete
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    In Concrete

    By Anne Garréta and Emma Ramadan

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    Garréta’s first novel in a decade follows the mania that descends upon a family when the father finds himself in possession of a concrete mixer. As he seeks to modernize every aspect of their lives, disaster strikes when the younger sister is subsumed by concrete.

    Through puns, wordplay, and dizzying verbal effect, Garréta reinvents the novel form and blurs the line between spoken and written language in an attempt to confront the elasticity of communication.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
    Release dateMay 11, 2021
    ISBN9781646050567
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