Persona

A trans woman discovers pornography of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil.The year's great work of literary horror. Gretchen Felker-Martin, author ofManhuntSharp and fearless. Publishers Weekly(starred review)The most stomach-churning, upsetting, thoroughly cursd queer book of the year.Alison Rumfitt, author ofTell Me I'm WorthlessandBrainwyrmsA feral shut-in discovers a disturbing internet porn video of what seems to be herself. A seance of coked-up artists summons unearthly forces in a studio apartment. The staircase of an exurban marketing company descends endlessly beneath the earth.In Aoife Josie Clements electric, nightmarish, intricately layered novel, the impossibility of goodness crowds in upon two young trans women barely surviving on sex work and zero-hours contracts. Below the familiar evils of capitalism and the bottomless depths of internet culture, a darker horror awaits. What curse follows these women? What are they escaping? What are they running towards?