September

A nameless confidante sets down the story of the writer Evelin Oderlap, piecing it together from the family album, photos stored on a phone, diary entries and text messages. From her earliest years Evelin has witnessed her parents' quarrels, which most often end with her drunken father beating her mother; she measures his sobriety in weeks and waits for the next explosion, feeling unloved and unimportant. Bullied at school, she finds comfort in starving herself, and she takes the unhealthy patterns of her family into adulthood. For her the father remains a deeply ambivalent figure, and only many years later, with a psychotherapist and her own insight, does she begin to work through her mixed feelings, her fears and her past and to learn to love. The novel dwells less on the violence itself than on the long time after it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

271 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2024 by Beletrina

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789612981945 (original)