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A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing by McBride, Eimear is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing about?

Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist. To read A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thingis to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit. A Girl is a Half-formed Thingis moving, funny - and alarming. It is a book you will never forget.

Who reads A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing?

Author

McBride, Eimear

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781922182234

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.45 / 5 (4,498 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14