We Are Made of Diamond Stuff

We Are Made of Diamond Stuffby Isabel Waidner Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize Polar bears emerge from t shirts. Reeboks come to life. Nothing is normal in the house of Mother Normal. In Isabel Waidners second novel, we follow an unnamed narrator who looks like Eleven from Stranger Things, but is in fact a 36 year old migrant working for minimum wage in a run down hotel on the Isle of Wight. Along with their best friend, Shae, the

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The London Review of Books

The friends’ journeys will lead them through a world at once recognisable and strangely removed

from coffee bar to house party

SARAH SCHULMAN is a novelist

published 5 November

embodying in form the trauma that it describes

true solidarity requires the collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed

Her books include The History of the Vertebrate and This Thing of Darkness

beguiling sustenance: a nourishment of pauses