Beschrijving
‘We read in order to come to life.’ With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers’ peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature. Fusing fantasy with lived experience, Checkout 19 is a vivid and mesmerising journey through the small traumas and triumphs that define us – as readers, as writers, as human beings.
I experienced, every few years, an urge to recall this moment and the events that preceded it. Not only recall, but to write it down, again. Again. Writre down again how he had discovered something secret in the back pages of my exercise book and asked me if there was more. He wanted more of something that I created, that I had, that I was – I couldn’t tell these things apart – it is the attention of a desired man or woman that will blur the lines that distinguish them.
