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	Fritz Agency Christian Dittus
Original language
English

UNDERNEATH

Lily Hoang

Over a five-year period, Martha Johnson murders her four children, one by one, in order to punish her husband when they argue, but Martha is no ordinary serial killer. She murders her children by using the bulk of her 250-pound body to suffocate them. Unlike other fictionalized true-crime novels, Underneath neither valorizes nor focuses on the specific acts of violence. Instead, it attempts to understand how feelings of powerlessness, the residue of trauma, and the need to find justice in a world that refuses to give a fat body justice finds its only respite through murder.

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Book Published 2021-10-01 by Red Hen Press

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Lily Hoang's novel, Underneath, is the searing tale of an abusive mother/daughter relationship. Told from the point of view of the murdered daughter, in prose that is part rant and part poetry, the novel draws its power from an unflinching examination of the monstrous parts of human nature. -- Cai Emmons, author of Weather Woman

[...] Fearless, brilliant, and incessant, Underneath is both a page-turner and a beast, one that gets you high on the terror of being alive.Blake Butler, author of Alice Knott

[...] Lily Hoang's masterful writing in Underneath creates a haunted house inside of which we confront not only the tyranny of bad mothers, but the systems that aid in their creation. -- Selah Saterstrom, author of Ideal Suggestions and Slab