{"product_id":"girls-against-godbooks","title":"Girls Against God","description":"\u003cb\u003eA genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJenny Hval's latest novel is a radical fusion of queer feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Strange and lyrical. Hval’s writing is surreal and rich with the grotesque banalities of human existence.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The themes of alienation, queerness, and the unsettling nature of desire align Hval with modern mainstays like Chris Kraus, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Maggie Nelson.\" —\u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Hval, Jenny","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Horror)","offer_id":47667530334432,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7bbb6eb0-1699-475d-b9bf-655e4296d24b.jpg?v=1755447191","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/girls-against-godbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}