Topics of Conversation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525656289)

A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill.

"Shrewd and sensual, Popkey's debut carries the scintillating charge of a long-overdue girls' night. --O, The Oprah Magazine

A Best Book of the Year by TIME, Esquire, Real Simple, Marie Claire, Glamor, Bustle, and more

Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women--the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves--Topics of Conversation careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. In exchanges about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage, Popkey touches upon desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, and guilt. Edgy, wry, and written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism, this novel introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.

Author: Miranda Popkey
ISBN-10: 0525656286
ISBN-13: 9780525656289
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.30w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2019
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 11/25/2019
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 71

About the Author
MIRANDA POPKEY lives in Massachusetts. Topics of Conversation is her first novel.