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A ROOM CALLED EARTH

Madeleine Ryan

A brilliant debut from a neurodiverse author that explores a young woman's magical, sensitive, and passionate inner world.

A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, and always honest.

And by the end of the night, she's shown us something radical about love, loss, and the need to belong.

Madeleine Ryan is an Australian writer, director, and actor. She's been widely published in Australia and overseas, including in The New York Times, Lenny Letter, Bustle, The Age, The Daily Telegraph, Vice, SBS, and The Sydney Morning Herald. A Room Called Earth is her first novel.

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Book Published 2021-01-01 by Scribe Publications

Comments

The dazzling directness of her prose opens thrilling new doors into the female experience of the sexual, spiritual and social worlds... The smart, magical voice Madeleine Ryan has found in A Room Called Earth is unlike anything else you'll find this year.' The Independent

"An ordinary night is made totally new through the eyes of the neurodivergent author in this honest debut." Elle "Cinematic and staggeringly beautiful, A Room Called Earth is unlike anything I've read before if you like Jeffrey Eugenides' luminous prose and Sally Rooney's crisp insights into human relationships, you'll love it." Stylist "A delicious slice of life on the spectrum rather than pandering to a pathologised external gaze, Ryan's narrator evokes how many autistic people see ourselves: the normal ones in a sea of non-autistic weirdos." The Irish Times "Extraordinary The dazzling directness of her prose opens thrilling new doors into the female experience of the sexual, spiritual and social worlds The smart, magical voice Madeleine Ryan has found in A Room Called Earth is unlike anything else you'll find this year." The Independent "Vibrant and revealing. Ryan succeeds in capturing neurodiversity on the page." Publishers Weekly "[M]uch of the novel's appeal comes from its illustration and examination of the narrator's blunt perspective on life and specifically social interaction Ryan's ability to convey her narrator's unique perspective makes it a worthwhile read." Kirkus

USA: Penguin;

"A resolute deep dive into an inner self, a transcendent character study, and a timely reminder that there's an entire universe inside of everyone we meet. You will be moved." Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook