Her sentences have an aqueous quality.” - The New Yorker Johnson’s own writing summons the just-off-ness of the uncanny she is capable of passages of exquisite creepiness. Johnson carries on this grand tradition by making something very old uncannily new.” - The New York Times Book Review Everything Under-a debut novel whose surreal, watery landscape will resonate with fans of Fen-is a daring, moving story that will leave you unsettled and unstrung. In this electrifying reinterpretation of a classical myth, Daisy Johnson explores questions of fate and free will, gender fluidity, and fractured family relationships.
And now that she’s searching for her mother, she’ll have to face it. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention.
Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZEĪn eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of Fen
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