Eva Baltasar and Julia Sanches discuss Mammoth with Polly Barton

The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith hosts author Eva Baltasar and translator Julia Sanches to discuss and celebrate the release of Mammoth with translator and writer Polly Barton.
The followup novel to International Booker-shortlisted Boulder is a story of queer motherhood and survival deep in the countryside.
Mammoth's protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She's inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work-all in pursuit of life in the raw.
This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social despair, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasar's wild voice.
Hosted by the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, this virtual event was originally recorded on August 10, 2024.
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